[CPEO-BIF] Plessey Micro Science site, Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mora Drive housing project waits on toxic cleanupBusinesses get  
another 18 months to relocate

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
October 13, 2013

Lingering toxic chemicals in the groundwater and soil under 2274 Mora  
Drive is being blamed for the delay of the development of as many as  
250 homes on a 10-acre site.

The plume of mostly Trichoroethylene (TCE) and Perchloroethylene  
(PCE) -- cancer-causing solvents left behind by 1960s electronic  
component manufacturer Plessey Micro Science -- has been a challenge  
for housing developers, two of whom have backed out of deals to  
develop the site since 2011, said Marty Chiechi of Grubb & Ellis, a  
real estate broker involved in the deals.

The city gave property owners on the site 25 years notice that the  
area would be redeveloped as housing in 2012. Over a dozen small  
businesses occupy buildings on the cul-de-sac, and many complained in  
2012 that they didn't know about the deadline and did not have time  
to find other suitable buildings. Most remain.


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For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/2013/10/13/mora-drive-housing-project-waits- 
on-toxic-cleanup

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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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