2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Ag Park" housing, Riverside, California
 
RIVERSIDE: Contaminated site could see homes in 2014

BY ALICIA ROBINSON
Riverside Press Enterprise (CA)
September 6, 2013

About four years after an initial effort to remove contaminated soil, a final cleanup is taking place on a Riverside property known as the agricultural park, and construction of homes could begin there next year.

In 2003, developer Chuck Cox had recently received the 59.5-acre parcel at Jurupa and Rutland avenues in La Sierra from the city in a land swap when a contractor clearing it for development punctured a tank full of sewage sludge on the site.

About 10,000 gallons of sewage spilled and chemicals known as PCBs, once used as coolants and lubricants but later banned as toxic, were discovered on the site. Officials said the contamination wasn’t a risk to neighbors, but plans to develop the land triggered a cleanup overseen by the state.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside- headlines-index/20130906-riverside-contaminated-site-could-see-homes- in-2014.ece

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