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"Airport Land Use: Trash site could attract birds"

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Airport: Trash site could attract birds
By Edythe Jensen
The Arizona Republic


Garbage attracts birds, and that's the latest objection to a proposed waste
transfer station northwest of Chandler Airport. 

The flocks, already a problem around the airport, endanger pilots, said
Chandler Air Service owner John Walkup. A wide variety of avian species is
drawn to a water retention basin and a rural county island in the flight
paths, making it the only airport in the state that has a continuous
recorded phone message warning pilots to watch out for birds, he said.

"More birds from the transfer station will make it less safe" to fly in and
out of the facility, Walkup said. 

Stuart Goodman, who represents property owners opposed to the transfer
station plans, said Federal Aviation Administration guidelines say open
trash transfer stations like the one proposed attract birds and are
incompatible with an airport. 

But Walkup said because the Chandler facility doesn't allow commercial
flights, the FAA will not likely intervene to stop construction.

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