[CPEO-BIF] Zeneca site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Years later, chemical company lot still a toxic stew


By Ian Stewart
Richmond Confidential (CA)
November 9, 2009

An old man with a pair of binoculars leans against a wooden fence, 
intent on some unseen object inside the weedy Stege Marsh. When the 
tide's up, the egrets and gulls come out and caw.

...

"It looks benign, you know," says Sherry Padgett, shielding her eyes 
from the late-afternoon sun. Padgett works at a cabling shop on South 
49th Street, across from this lot. From her second-story office, she can 
see across the entire site, over the marshes and out to the bay.

A real-estate development company called Cherokee-Simeon Ventures now 
owns the 85 acres that separate South 49th from the shores of the bay. 
When the developers bought the property in 2002, they named it Campus 
Bay. But the people who work around here - not to mention city 
officials, the Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of 
Public Health, state Water Board, and Department of Toxic Substance 
Control - all call it the Zeneca site. Most everyone calls it a mess.

...

For the entire article, see
http://richmondconfidential.org/2009/11/09/years-later-chemical-company-lot-still-a-toxic-stew/

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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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