[CPEO-BIF] Former Manufactured Gas Plant cleanup, Red Bluff, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Manufactured Gas Plant cleanup schedule to begin in January


By Heather Hoelscher
Red Bluff Daily News (CA)
November 12, 2016


Red Bluff  - The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is set to begin a nine-month voluntary cleanup project in January 2017 to address contaminated soil left behind by the former manufactured gas plant at 600 Rio St. along the Sacramento River.

PG&E Project Manager Bill White presented details of the cleanup project Thursday at the Sacramento River Discovery Center’s Thursday Evening Program.

Cleanup of the site will provide long-term protection of public health and the environment as some by products of the gas making process were left buried at the site.

The property does not present a health risk in its condition, however, the removal of contaminated soil is an important step in future property redevelopment, White said. The intent is to get the site back into productive use for the city and sell it after cleanup is complete.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/general-news/20161112/former-manufactured-gas-plant-cleanup-schedule-to-begin-in-january?source=most_viewed&template=printart

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
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