[CPEO-BIF] "Soil Contamination Delays Renovation at Los Angeles [California] State Historic Park"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil Contamination Delays Renovation at Los Angeles State Historic Park

By Eddie Kim
LA Downtown News (CA)
January 14, 2015 9:20 am


Soil Contamination Delays Renovation at Los Angeles State Historic Park

The 34-acre Los Angeles State Historic Park closed in April 2014 for a $20 million renovation. 

The extensive renovation of Los Angeles State Historic Park, the 34-acre facility on the edge of Chinatown, has hit delays, and its spring opening has been pushed back.

State Department of Parks and Recreation Superintendent Sean Woods said the project, which began in April 2014 and was scheduled to last a year, is now expected to finish in November.

Workers were putting in utility lines when they ran into a section of a brick building they had not seen on historical maps, Woods said, and it had to be excavated. More significantly, he said, heavy metal contaminants were found in several layers of underground ash, the byproduct of the trains that ran on the site in the mid-20th century.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/soil-contamination-delays-renovation-at-los-angeles-state-historic-park/article_0b972436-9c12-11e4-a315-9f8a303a5a22.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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