Congressman asks to cut airfield site
Published: Thu, Apr. 24, 2008 12:30AM
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closeRALEIGH -- A congressman has asked the Navy to drop a North Carolina site from consideration for a proposed military landing field because of local opposition.
Rep. Walter Jones' office said Wednesday that he had sent a letter to Navy Secretary Donald Winter asking that the Hale's Lake site in Camden and Currituck counties be dropped.
Jones, a Republican, said local residents opposed the landing field and that locating it there would take valuable farmland out of production. Jones urged the Navy to locate a field at or near property of a Marine Corps air station at Havelock.
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The Navy is seeking a site for the field after opposition forced it to give up a site near Plymouth. It is preparing environmental assessments on five possible sites in North Carolina and Virginia.
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