[CPEO-BIF] San Mateo County, California

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contaminated sites sully San Mateo County's landscape


Katie Worth
San Francisco Examiner
July 7, 2008

San Mateo County -

The industrial swath that hugs the Bay between Hunters Point and East 
Palo Alto years ago contained so much contaminated land that some 
environmental groups dubbed it the "toxic crescent."

Today, there are more than 550 known contaminated sites in San Mateo County.

While that figure is formidable, it is about 39 percent smaller than it 
was 10 years ago, and is continuing to shrink, according to the two 
state agencies that oversee toxic cleanups.

And the drive behind the cleanup is simple.

"Development," Department of Toxic Substance Control spokeswoman Carol 
Northrup said. "Development is cleaning up sites that otherwise wouldn't 
be cleaned up."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/printa-1475471~Contaminated_sites_sully_San_Mateo_County's_landscape.html


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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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