[CPEO-BIF] Gun club cleanup, San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

S.F. gun club closure triggers $22 million cleanup

By John Wildermuth
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
February 23, 2015

The Pacific Rod and Gun Club at Lake Merced may be shutting down in April, but its presence will linger on in the estimated $22 million bill to clean up 80 years’ worth of shotgun pellets and busted clay pigeons that litter the lakeside skeet- and trap-shooting range.

Earlier this month, the Board of Supervisors approved the final $9.5 million for the cleanup project, which is to begin days after the club moves out April 8. Construction crews will begin removing about 46,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from the 11-acre site at San Francisco’s southwestern edge, replacing it with clean dirt.

Considering that a single truck can carry only about 12 cubic yards of dirt, there will be a conveyor belt of vehicles moving along John Muir Drive for the year it’s expected to take to complete the work.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-gun-club-closure-triggers-22-million-cleanup-6097372.php#/0

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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
http://www.cpeo.org




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