[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY, CLOSURE: Alameda Point (CA) tour

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy offers annual toxic site tour at Alameda Point


By Rin Kelly
Island of Alameda (CA)
July 19, 2010

About 50 people turned out Saturday for the Navy's annual Alameda Point 
tour. The tour offered participants to see four toxic hot spots at the 
Point, which is a Superfund site, and to learn more about the Navy's 
efforts to clean up the base.

The four stops on the fully booked bus tour included visits to some of 
the more complex and controversial cleanup areas at the former Naval Air 
Station, including the Seaplane Lagoon and a former landfill location 
known in Superfund-speak as Installation Restoration Site 1.

Used as the main waste disposal site at NAS Alameda between 1943 and 
1956, Site 1, which is at the Point's Northwest edge, has been the 
subject of a heated bureaucratic back-and-forth between city officials, 
environmental regulators and the Navy, which has chosen to clean up the 
site to a level less stringent than that desired by city leaders - at a 
fraction of the cost of the city's favored alternative.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2010/07/navy-offers-annual-toxic-site-tour-at-alameda-point/

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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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