Storage tank removal won’t delay barracks at Dal Molin

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Storage tank removal won’t delay barracks at Dal Molin
By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, September 24, 2008

It might take workers until January to remove 38 underground storage tanks from the Dal Molin airfield, but that work won’t delay construction of barracks and offices for the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Army officials say.

In March, the Army announced it had awarded a 245-million euro contract to two Italian firms with the goal of consolidating all six 173rd battalions in northern Italy by 2012. Currently, four of the six battalions are based in Bamberg and Schweinfurt in Germany. The other two are located in Vicenza.

Kambiz Razzaghi, director of the Transformation Construction Management Office at Caserma Ederle, said Tuesday that the relocation of the tanks and the beginning of construction are not necessarily related.

"It’s a very large base, and the tanks are in a small area," he said in a phone interview.

CMC di Ravenna and Consorzio Cooperativa Construzioni of Bologna, a joint venture of two Italian companies awarded the contract to build barracks and offices, recently began removing the tanks from the site.


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