2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Plessey Micro Science site, Mountain View, California
 
Mora Drive housing project waits on toxic cleanupBusinesses get another 18 months to relocate

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
October 13, 2013

Lingering toxic chemicals in the groundwater and soil under 2274 Mora Drive is being blamed for the delay of the development of as many as 250 homes on a 10-acre site.

The plume of mostly Trichoroethylene (TCE) and Perchloroethylene (PCE) -- cancer-causing solvents left behind by 1960s electronic component manufacturer Plessey Micro Science -- has been a challenge for housing developers, two of whom have backed out of deals to develop the site since 2011, said Marty Chiechi of Grubb & Ellis, a real estate broker involved in the deals.

The city gave property owners on the site 25 years notice that the area would be redeveloped as housing in 2012. Over a dozen small businesses occupy buildings on the cul-de-sac, and many complained in 2012 that they didn't know about the deadline and did not have time to find other suitable buildings. Most remain.


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For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/2013/10/13/mora-drive-housing-project-waits- on-toxic-cleanup

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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