2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:19:21 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former Pacific Gas & Electric Co. manufactured gas plant, Red Bluff, California
 
Cleanup to begin Monday at former gas plant along river


Red Bluff Daily News 
January 7, 2017

Red Bluff - Environmental cleanup is slated to start Monday at the site of a former Pacific Gas & Electric Co. manufactured gas plant along the Sacramento River in downtown.

Under the oversight of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, PG&E will clean up site soils impacted by historic gas making activities at 600 Rio Street.

>From 1874 to 1947, a manufactured gas plant operated at the site burning wood, shale, coal and crude oil to produce gas. The byproducts of gas-making operations were tar, light oils, sludge and lampblack, which is a fine black soot-like material.

PG&E sold the property in 1959 and a motel was built in 1962 and operated until 2010 when PG&E repurchased the property to facilitate investigation and cleanup activities. PG&E demolished the motel in 2011 and cleanup work has been undertaken since.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/article/ND/20170107/NEWS/170109883

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
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