2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:54:52 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] PG&E Manufactured Gas Plant, Marina District, San Francisco, California
 
PG&E quietly clearing toxic soil from pricey Marina district

By Emily Green and David R. Baker
San Francisco Chronicle
March 26, 2017

Jeb Barrett remembers a couple of years ago when his fiancee noticed that three houses on one side of his Alhambra Street home in San Francisco’s Marina district were vacant. So was a house on the other side. 

It was weird, he said, to be “walking home and seeing all of these empty units.”

Then one day Barrett looked outside and saw a huge conveyor belt. Workers were digging out the yard next door. 

“For a number of months, they would systematically shovel out 8 feet of soil and then bring in new soil,” he said.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-quietly-cleaning-contaminated-soil-in-pricey-11028095.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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