[CPEO-BIF] EPA questions Scottsdale baseball complex

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New ball field could hamper water cleanup

Peter Corbett
The Arizona Republic
September 21, 2004

SCOTTSDALE - Federal regulators are concerned that building a baseball 
complex east of Scottsdale Stadium could interfere with environmental 
cleanup efforts.

The 10 acres of city-owned land northeast of 75th Street and Osborn Road 
is under consideration for an $18 million training facility for the San 
Francisco Giants.

Matt Jefferson, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency project manager, 
said the agency needs more details about the baseball complex to 
determine if it would hinder the cleanup project.

The city's site is within a federal Superfund cleanup project that 
involves soil and groundwater tainted with an industrial solvent called 
trichloroethylene, or TCE.

Steve Owens, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality director, said 
he does not see a problem with building the baseball complex on the site 
other than relocating a well used to monitor groundwater contamination.
…

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Lenny Siegel
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c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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