[CPEO-BIF] Marina Center, Eureka, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long process awaits Marina Center Development

Thadeus Greenson
Eureka Times-Standard (CA)
September 16, 2009

Months and months in the making, the Marina Center development's draft 
environmental impact report is tentatively scheduled to come before the 
Eureka City Council next month for certification.

The stop in City Council Chambers is just one of a litany of hurdles the 
project, and its interim cleanup plan, must clear in order to bring the 
43-acre Marina development to fruition and transform the blighted, 
contaminated Balloon Track property into a mixed-use development that 
proponents hope will breathe new life into Eureka.

CUE VI, a subsidiary of Security National, purchased the Balloon Track 
in 2006 and is proposing the construction of a development that will 
include retail and office spaces, as well as an 11-acre wetland reserve. 
The project drew controversy from the start, much of it swirling around 
the property's environmental legacy, which includes stints as a rail 
yard and an above-ground fuel storage facility, which combined to leave 
contaminants like heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, dioxins and 
polychlorinated biphenols.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13347415

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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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