[CPEO-BIF] Napa, California manufactured gas plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PG&E soil tests to force Napa tenants to move

David R. Baker
San Francisco Chronicle
February 18, 2010

Tenants of a Napa apartment complex have six months to leave their homes 
before Pacific Gas and Electric Co. closes and possibly bulldozes the 
buildings, looking for soil contaminated by an old gas plant that once 
occupied the site.

The utility recently bought the half-empty complex, at the corner of 
Riverside Drive and Elm Street. Built in 1964, the apartments sit atop 
the location of a plant that - a century ago - made gas for 
streetlights, homes and businesses.

PG&E started notifying tenants this week that all of them must leave by 
Aug. 20, before soil testing and possible cleanup begins. The utility, 
based in San Francisco, has hired relocation experts to help them hunt 
for new housing and will also provide some financial assistance, 
although PG&E representatives this week wouldn't say how much.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/17/BUJ11C2IVF.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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