[CPEO-BIF] "Google takes extra steps to remove contamination from Kirkland [Washington] brownfield site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Google takes extra steps to remove contamination from Kirkland  
brownfield site

RAECHEL DAWSON
Kirkland Reporter (WA)
January 21, 2014

Five acres of dirt is all that's left of a former Kirkland brownfield  
site where a chemical mixing and storage facility once pumped toxins  
into the environment for nearly 20 years.

The contaminated land, set to be the new location for the Google II  
project, met state standards in 2012 after extensive cleanup by the  
chemical company.

But Google executives want more for the property that will house  
1,000 employees come 2015.

For the first time, as far as Ecology officials understand, a  
business in Washington is taking extra steps to ensure property  
contamination is as close to zero as possible.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/241325461.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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