[FedCom] Interesting article on proposed DHS towers (posted in a Maine newspaper)

[hornsmoke at gwi.net]

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/newsupdate.php?updates/feds-eye-cadillac-mountain-for-spy-tower


    Feds eye Cadillac Mountain for spy tower

Submitted By The Associated Press
on Friday, Jun. 5 at 8:58 am

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK (AP) -- The top of Acadia National Park's Cadillac 
Mountain is one of dozens of sites under consideration for an 80-foot 
tower designed to enhance federal homeland security communications.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency spokesman told the Bangor 
Daily News that Cadillac is one of about 60 locations in the state that 
are being eyed for towers to provide better communications capabilities.

He said no decisions have been made and additional information will be 
available when the agency's environmental impact statement is submitted.

John Kelly, Acadia's park planner, said there are concerns about the 
visual impact of another tower on top of Acadia's best-known peak. 
Cadillac Mountain is the only peak accessible by public road in the 
park, which gets more than two million visitors each year.