[CPEO-BIF] "Polluted PG&E site might be redeveloped in five years, " Napa, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted PG&E site might be redeveloped in five years

by BARRY REBELLING 
Napa Valley Register (CA)
April 15, 2016

Century-old soil pollution that prompted the razing of a Napa apartment complex in 2011 might finally be removed in 2019 and the site made available for redevelopment by 2021.

Pacific Gas & Electric owns the now-vacant, 1.3-acre property on the 200 block of Riverside Drive along the Napa River south of downtown. It wants to cleanse the site of petroleum hydrocarbons, metals and other contaminates and sell it to a developer so apartments or townhouses can be constructed.

Out with pollutants and in with affordable housing – that’s the scenario that PG&E officials described to the Napa Sanitation District Board of Directors last week.

Mike Lee of PG&E said the utility is preparing a pollution remediation action plan that must be approved by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control. Hopefully, remediation can be done in 2019, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/polluted-pg-e-site-might-be-redeveloped-in-five-years/article_f9e84604-b061-58c0-8d8b-9233c96fd7ce.html

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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