[CPEO-BIF] "Where Legacy Pollution May Lurk" in San Diego, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Where Legacy Pollution May Lurk

by Adrian Florido
Voice of San Diego (CA)
February 10, 2011

If you use the interactive map linked in our story this week to find out 
where contaminated properties are in your neighborhood, you might notice 
something unusual.

As noted in the story, contaminated properties, or brownfields, show up 
in regulatory agencies' records once they've been assessed for cleanup. 
And that most often happens when someone is interested in developing a 
property and is researching what cleanup is required.

That's a main reason you'll notice a huge difference in the number of 
contaminated sites if you're comparing downtown San Diego to 
southeastern San Diego, the focus of my story.

The rush to redevelop downtown during the last decade uncovered parcel 
after parcel of contaminated land stemming from downtown's industrial 
past. Developers had to report that contamination to local and state 
regulatory agencies, and then clean it up before they could move forward 
with construction.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/survival/article_2df81ee0-3587-11e0-a7de-001cc4c002e0.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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