Let them know this is unacceptable. Write to: Mr. Rick Weissenborn BRAC Environmental Coordinator, Navy BRAC Program Management office West 1455 Frazee Road Suite 900 San Diego CA 92108 e-mail richard.weissenborn@xxxxxxxx There will be a public meeting May 23 2006 at Building 943, Moffett Fiel= d, CA Please don't stay silent or assume others will speak out. The more objec= tions to this awful plan the navy is forced to hear, the better. Posted on Mon, May. 01, 2006 = http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/merc.../printstory.jsp Navy study to urge razing Moffett Field's Hangar One PRESERVATIONISTS UPSET BY RECOMMENDATION FOR CONTAMINATED BUILDING THAT = DATES TO 1933 By Joshua Sabatini Knight Ridder A Navy study due out Friday will recommend demolishing the historic Hang= ar One at Moffett Field in Mountain View, the agency announced in a news= paper advertisement. ``It's totally unacceptable,'' said Lenny Siegel, founder of the Save Ha= ngar One Committee. ``The hangar is irreplaceable. There ought to be a w= ay to save it without all the hazardous substance built into it.'' Hangar One -- built in 1933 to house the airship U.S.S. Macon -- was fou= nd to be contaminated with lead, asbestos and PCBs in the late 1990s. Th= e Navy is responsible for cleaning up Moffett Field, which once was a Na= val Air Station. NASA Ames Research Center now occupies the land. To what extent and how the Navy cleans up Moffett Field have come under = fire in the past. Now taking center stage in the cleanup debate is how the Navy will remed= iate the contaminated hangar, which some consider a national landmark, a= kin to the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franci= sco. The Navy's engineering evaluation and cost analysis study for Hangar One= will detail 13 options for cleaning up the 200-foot-high and 300-foot-w= ide hangar. The Navy is usually tight-lipped about its Moffett Field decisions until= the studies are issued, but broke this tradition last week by placing a= n ad in Friday's edition of the local community weekly, the Mountain Vie= w Voice. Navy officials were unavailable for comment Sunday. The contents of the ad quickly circulated through an e-mail message netw= ork established by Save Hangar One committee members. ``The recommended alternative consists of complete demolition and off-si= te disposal of Hangar One,'' the ad states. The ad also said as part of demolition, the Navy would document the stru= cture's history with such things as photos and drawings as well as mark = the hangar site with something ``to denote the size of the structure,'' = as it once stood. Demolition ``provides the best solution because the contaminant source (= the hangar siding and structure) would be completely controlled by remov= ing the source from the site,'' the ad said. The report will come out Friday for a 30-day public review period. A pub= lic meeting in building 943 at Moffett Field will be held by the Navy on= May 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. to discuss the study. It won't be clear why demolition is the best option for the Navy until t= he report comes out, but it's likely the other possible options, such as= encapsulating the structure to contain the pollutants, proved costlier = and required some form of maintenance in the future, something the Navy = and NASA would frown upon. Siegel said he wasn't surprised by the Navy's recommendation since the `= `Navy didn't start out with that goal'' of preserving the hangar to allo= w for reuse. ``It will be a terrible loss to the entire community,'' said Bob Moss, w= ho sits on the Restoration Advisory Board, a Navy set-up community group= charged with overseeing its Moffett Field cleanup. ``Not only is it a l= andmark, but if it was made usable it would be a valuable opportunity fo= r an awful lot of organizations to move in there and use it effectively.= '' __________________ Support Team Twin Towers: http://teamtwintowers.org/ The Unofficial JFK Airport 50th Anniversary Page: http://members.tripod.= com/~psa188/ The best slide auction on the net: http://www.auctiontransportation.com/sites/psa188/