Residents struggle for quiet with shooting range near environmentally important land

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In northwest Hillsborough County there’s a 400-acre chunk of land that environmentalists hope to save as a way to keep recharging the drinking water aquifer; Monday night in the Hillsborough County Center there’s a land use meeting, in part to talk about the future of this land near Keystone that also includes a shooting range.

Last Thursday WMNF interviewed Tom Aderhold, president of the Keystone Civic Association, about the land and a gun range on part of it.

Residents were granted a kind of victory on Friday: the owners of the shooting range were reprimanded by Hillsborough County’s code enforcement.

For more on that we spoke Friday afternoon with Deanna Corarito, a member of the Keystone Civic Association who lives near the shooting range. She’s standing in her yard; if you listen closely you can hear the constant shots being fired from the shooting range.

WMNF requested an interview with Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), but we did not get a response by air time.

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3 Responses to “Residents struggle for quiet with shooting range near environmentally important land”

  1. Joe

    Isn’t that a bit like buying a home at the end of a runway and complaining about the noise from the planes? The gun range has been there longer than most residents and will continue. Doesn’t bother me one bit and I live within earshot. Also, that land is NOT as environmentally sensative as many other areas ELAPP needs to pay close attention to. Stop letting the big mouth liars turn the heads of the easily misled.

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    • Julie Latimer

      I can’t speak for all of the residents of Keystone, but my friends have lived there since the 1960s. They’re not trying to shut it down, they’re trying to dial back the incredible increase in National Shooting events in the past 3 years. I have hiked through Brooker Creek for YEARS and the noise HAS gotten much, much worse in the past few years.

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      • Joe

        Precisely…don’t speak for the residents unless you live here AND have their permission. The blow hard in this interview doesn’t live in Keystone and doesn’t represent me and I’ve lived here since the 50’s. Again…there are much more sensitive lands directly within the watershed that are currently being polluted with REAL pollutants and neighboring homeowners suffering from loud machinery from industrial business this guy promotes as “the gold standard”. Now the EPC is suing this business to stop them yet they still operate and pollute everyday. Don’t believe a word from this lying narcissist. He is definitely no expert and doesn’t have a clue. Shame on WMNF for being remiss in vetting their guests who just played them for a fool.

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