Group Pushes to Get Currituck Site Off Navy's OLF List
The Virginian-Pilot
© June 13, 2008
MOYOCK
A jet practice airfield proposed for Camden County should be dismissed as too intrusive - as it was in a 2003 study commissioned by the Navy, a residents group says.
In a letter sent this week to U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., the group asked elected officials to enact legislation that would strike the Hales Lake site in Camden County from consideration for an outlying landing field.
Maps from the 2003 study show the Hales Lake site with elongated noise zones that extend over Moyock in Currituck County and Elizabeth City in Pasquotank County. The study recommended "no further action" on the Hales Lake site, because of its potential effects on the growing population nearby.
When Hales Lake was put on a list of five sites in January, the noise zones were smaller and did not overlap Elizabeth City or Moyock. The opposition group questions the change that appears to make the site more acceptable.
"We're focusing on the one thing," said Juanita Krause, a founding member of the group, which is calling itself Hales-No OLF - Currituck and Camden Citizens Against the OLF. "What changed the contours? Where's that study?"