[CPEO-IRF] Mare Island (CA) bus tour

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tour talks of island cleanup efforts
Flyway Festival event explains M.I. projects

By ANDREA WOLF
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
February 3, 2008

Flyway Festival tour passengers wipe away condensation on rain-spotted 
windows at the municipal landfill parcel on Mare Island as Weston 
Solutions project manager Dwight Gemar, left, describes his company's 
Mare Island remediation efforts. The tour visited 5 different areas of 
the island, showcasing cleanup efforts by the various agencies involved 
in redevelopment. (Mike Jory/Times-Herald)
Thousands of pounds of soil are being removed because of harmful toxins, 
wetlands are being restored and munitions are being cleared in a massive 
environmental cleanup project on Mare Island.

After decades of naval activity, Mare Island was left riddled with 
petroleum, oil, lead, metals, asbestos and other toxic substances.

Despite wet and windy weather Saturday, people from around the Bay Area 
came out to tour several cleanup sites and learn how the island is being 
repaired.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/todaysnews/ci_8157493

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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