2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
 
New Cleanup Effort in Bayview Hunters Point


Durrie Lawrence
KQED Radio (San Francisco)
July 26, 2012

The EPA has awarded $600,000 in grants for further environmental cleanup in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

For the next three years, the city will use $400,000 for surveying efforts. They aim to assess how many Brownfield sites there are in the area, and determine how they need to be cleaned up.

The EPA defines a brownfield site as a property which may be contaminated by a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.

Project manager Annie Eng says the work funded by this grant will begin as earlier as October. She says that more than 100 years of industrial activity has created as many as 150 sites in the neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/07/26/103680/ new_cleanup_efforts_in_bayviews_hunters_point?category=bay+area

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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