DEP tentatively OKs Tweed safety area

From: New Haven Register | Date: August 24, 2006| Author: Mark Zaretsky | Copyright information

The state Department of Environmental Protection has made a tentative determination to approve Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport's application to fill about 11 acres of tidal wetlands to create federally mandated 1,000-foot, runway safety areas at either end of its main runway. The tentative decision - on a project that would have the greatest impact on tidal wetlands that current DEP staff can remember - came nearly six years after Tweed first applied and started the clock on a 40-day public ...

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