[CPEO-BIF] Fuel Pollution Threatens Seattle Apartment Project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old Pollution Threatens Apartment Project

By Scott
Seattle Central District News (WA)
November 10, 2009

The lot on the northeast corner of 12th & Jefferson has been vacant for 
almost 40 years. But a hundred years ago it contained a house. And in 
1926 it was turned into a gas station that operated up until the 1950s.

Now that automotive history is threatening an affordable apartment 
project that has been planned for the corner by Capitol Hill Housing. An 
initial environmental evaluation verified the property's history back in 
January, and soil samples taken in September found "significant 
petroleum contamination" on the property:

    * Gasoline: 400 times the state cleanup standards
    * Benzene: 500 times the state cleanup standards
    * Xylenes: 2.5 times the state cleanup standards


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For the entire article, see
http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2009/11/10/old-pollution-threatens-apartment-project

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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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