Alameda Naval Air Station Site
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| The Navy began building the 1,734 acre base on Alameda Island in the late 1930s, and for over 50 years it was a repair and maintenance facility for Navy aircraft, including carrier-based planes and helicopters. It was closed by BRAC in 1997, and is now in the lengthy transition stage from a military base to a civilian extension of the City of Alameda. The base once employed as many as 15,000 people, but now has a couple thousand working on it at most. Large maintenance hangars are used as soundstages, tradeshow exhibit fabrication, motor coach conversion, and other light industries. The former seaplane lagoon is a man-made harbor, flanked by expanses of asphalt, a port area with reserve military cargo vessels stationed there, engine test buildings, and a former corrosion control facility. The west end of the island, including the main runways, is again restricted to the public, this time as a wildlife refuge. The refuge covers over 500 acres of the base, including the runways, munition bunkers and the main landfill, where thousands of tons of toxic material was dumped for decades. |
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Five miles E of San Francisco, in Alameda
(POINT(-122.31336593628 37.784011442629))
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Alameda NAS CA, 94501
Alameda County |
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| The built-up areas of the former Naval Air Station are now open to the public, and the aircraft carrier (the USS Hornet) docked there alongside the MARAD ships is a museum. There is also a base museum, at the end of Atlantic Avenue next to the lagoon, which is open on some weekends. The expanses of asphalt outside the refuge fence, including the west side of the lagoon, are accessible through some parking lots between the hangars. |
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http://www.alameda-point.com/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/alameda.htm
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