[CPEO-MEF] "Navy Avoids Full Cleanup Responsibility" at Alameda Point (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Avoids Full Cleanup Responsibility

by Susan Galleymore
Alameda Sun (CA)
April 26, 2013

More than two dozen residents attended the Navy's public comment  
meeting held in the Main Library on April 9. The meeting addressed  
the Navy's reversal of an earlier decision to remove contamination  
from the "burn area" of the former waste dump on the northwestern tip  
of Alameda Point

The Navy's new plan, Alternative BA-1, leaves contaminants in place  
topped with a soil cover and installs a waste-isolation bulkhead to  
reduce the fl ow of contaminants into the bay.

Residents' comments indicate uniform disapproval of the change. One  
speaker said that predecessors may not have understood potential  
damage when they improperly disposed hazardous wastes but our  
generation has the awareness and the technology to make better choices.

...

For the entire column, see
http://alamedasun.com/editorial/11781-navy-avoids-full-cleanup- 
responsibility

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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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