[CPEO-BIF] "Removal of 'Shell Pond' polluted soil set to start in April, " Bay Point, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bay Point: Removal of 'Shell Pond' polluted soil set to start in April

By Sam Richards 
Contra Costa Times (CA)
March 23, 2105

BAY POINT -- More than two years after an aborted attempt to clean up the old "Shell Pond" along Suisun Bay, PG&E will soon begin removing 8,400 tons of dredged polluted soil from land adjacent to the pond on the community's north edge, with an eye toward starting cleanup of the 73-acre pond itself in 2017.

The utility is set to begin, in mid-April, removing soil containing petroleum hydrocarbons ("carbon black"), metals and other compounds dredged in 2012 from the waste pond about three-quarters of a mile north of Willow Pass Road along the waterfront and trucking it about two miles to the Keller Canyon landfill, said PG&E spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian. That work is expected to take approximately three months, she said.

Even after the 2012 dredging, the Shell Pond bottom has a 1- to 3-foot layer of those same petroleum hydrocarbons, metals and other compounds.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-county/ci_27761390/bay-point-removal-shell-pond-polluted-soil-set

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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