[CPEO-BIF] Midway Village, Daly City, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Daly City housing complex haunted by toxic past

Jane Kay
San Francisco Chronicle
March 2, 2009


When Gail Smith moved to Midway Village, a tidy public housing 
development near the Cow Palace in Daly City, she felt lucky to pay a 
reasonable rent for a great place.

She didn't know that toxic waste scraped from Pacific Gas and Electric 
Co.'s former gas-manufacturing plant next door - a site on the state's 
hazardous-waste cleanup program - had been used as fill under the 
complex's buildings and parks.

In the past 20 years, longtime residents like Smith and some newcomers 
to the housing complex have seen foul-smelling chemicals oozing up in 
their backyards, cataloged their health problems and weathered major 
cleanups.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/02/BA5U1665BR.DTL

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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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