[CPEO-BIF] "New cold storage facility to be built at Port of Long Beach, " California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New cold storage facility to be built at Port of Long Beach

By Andrew Edwards
Long Beach Press-Telegram (CA)
March 19, 2104

LONG BEACH - Baker Cold Storage and Lineage Logistics broke ground  
Wednesday on an expansive cold storage building that company  
executives said will be the largest of its kind near a Southern  
California port.

When completed, the nearly 250,000-square-foot building will enable  
its operators to import fruits and vegetables from such places as  
Peru and Chile while also employing “blast freezing” technology to  
prepare beef, pork and chicken products for export to Asian ports,  
said Mitch Ebright, vice president of Baker Cold Storage, and Bill  
Hendrickson, CEO of Lineage Logistics.

...

The land, however, was contaminated. It was the site of a J. H.  
Baxter & Co. wood treatment plant from 1925 to 2001 where creosote  
and other chemicals were detected in soil or groundwater. The state  
Department of Toxic Substances Control is overseeing a remediation  
plan that includes the construction of a barrier composed of concrete  
and other materials between the soil and surface.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.presstelegram.com/business/20140319/new-cold-storage- 
facility-to-be-built-at-port-of-long-beach

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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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