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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Cleanup Effort in Bayview Hunters Point


Durrie Lawrence
KQED Radio (San Francisco)
July 26, 2012

The EPA has awarded $600,000 in grants for further environmental  
cleanup in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

For the next three years, the city will use $400,000 for surveying  
efforts. They aim to assess how many Brownfield sites there are in  
the area, and determine how they need to be cleaned up.

The EPA defines a brownfield site as a property which may be  
contaminated by a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.

Project manager Annie Eng says the work funded by this grant will  
begin as earlier as October. She says that more than 100 years of  
industrial activity has created as many as 150 sites in the  
neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/07/26/103680/ 
new_cleanup_efforts_in_bayviews_hunters_point?category=bay+area

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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
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