[CPEO-BIF] San Diego, California - "Where Old Pollution Stunts New Development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Where Old Pollution Stunts New Development


by Adrian Florido
Voice of San Diego (CA)
February 8, 2011


Growing up in San Diego's Emerald Hills neighborhood in the 1960s, 
Charles Davis remembers seeing dump trucks sputtering through his 
community in search of empty lots to unload their hauls of dirt. He 
wasn't sure where they were coming from.

More than four decades later, he has a better idea. Davis is the 
director of project development for the nonprofit Jacobs Center for 
Neighborhood Innovation, which has bought 55 acres of land to redevelop 
and revitalize the low income community near Euclid Avenue and Market 
Street in southeastern San Diego.

But the nonprofit knows or suspects much of that land is polluted. The 
area carries a history as an aerospace manufacturing hub. And the Jacobs 
Center has found that some dirt imported in those dump trucks decades 
ago was contaminated.

The soil from other suburban developments was dumped in an era before 
environmental laws regulated soil contaminants, and the dumping created 
a patchwork of potentially environmentally hazardous sites that have 
made it more difficult — and more expensive — to redevelop there.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/survival/article_78e1e468-3406-11e0-9d3b-001cc4c03286.html

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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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