[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Alameda (CA) "NAS Runway Cleanup Starts"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NAS Runway Cleanup Starts

by Richard Bangert
Alameda Sun (CA)
November 2, 2012

Some of the toxic contamination at Alameda Point is not the result of  
naval operations.

The soil beneath the runways became contaminated with polycyclic  
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before it ever became part of Alameda  
Point. The fill material used for creating this land mass was dredged  
from the Oakland Estuary primarily between 1936 and 1941 by means of  
a pumping system. It was contaminated by a coal gasification plant,  
which operated in Oakland about 100 years ago that disposed of waste  
into the waterway.

The Navy recently began cleaning up contaminated soil at five hot  
spots in the airplane runway. Cleanup Site 33, the area commonly  
referred to as the wildlife refuge, encompasses the southern end of  
the main north-south runway and adjacent tarmac, and is near the  
least tern nesting site and a wetland area.

Some of the sediment contamination may also have originated at the  
Pacific Coast Oil Refinery that operated on the West End in 1879 and  
later moved to Richmond.

...

For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/local-and-hometown/11013-nas-runway-cleanup- 
starts-

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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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