[CPEO-BIF] "Palo Alto [California] residents dissatisfied with Stanford’s plan to address toxic vapors"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Palo Alto residents dissatisfied with Stanford’s plan to address toxic vapors


by Katlyn Alacati 
Stanford Daily (CA)
February 28, 2016


Residents of Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood continue to contest Stanford’s plan to manage toxic substances found in the University’s nearby construction site for University Terrace, a new faculty housing area on the edge of Stanford Research Park.

Residents are concerned that toxics are present in the soil under their homes or will be carried by groundwater during rains, according to the College Terrace Residents’ Association subcommittee, which investigated Stanford’s plan. 

In a letter sent on Jan. 26 to the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the association urged California to reject the plan. Residents asked the state to require Stanford to remove the contaminated soil and take other precautionary measures.

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For there entire article, see
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/02/28/palo-alto-residents-dissatisfied-with-stanfords-plan-to-address-toxic-vapors/

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