The Albuquerque District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now tasked with the design work for a fire station to go up at the White Sands Missile Range.
In late December, the project received $6.4 million in federal funding via the Omnibus Appropriations Agreement for Fiscal Year 2023. That funding was subsequently announced in a joint press release by New Mexico Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan.
The new station will replace a facility dating to the 1960s, and will be one of four such stations providing coverage to, at nearly 3,200 square miles, the largest military installation in the country.
Those stations, on a base that is roughly 26 miles to the northeast of Las Cruces, are located at 155 Dyer Street, 23480 Nike Avenue, 34228 West Stallion, and Range Road 264.
The station project is one of three projects at White Sands to have received federal funding via the omnibus bill. The other two include what is called the “Las Cruces Substation,” which received $6.4 million in funding. A third project will see the construction of a Missile Assembly Building, securing $3.6 million in funding out of Washington.
By Garry Boulard
