[CPEO-BIF] J.F. Wilson Site TCE plume, Davis, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Analysis: Assessing the Impacts of Lincoln40 – Part 2, Is There a Toxic Plume?

by  David Greenwald
Davis Vanguard (CA)
August 9, 2017

On Sunday, Eileen Samitz wrote that “your articles continue to ignore and side-step the serious problems and impacts by a mega-dorm project like Lincoln40 and try to simplify it to a numbers or ratio issue.”  In her comment, which we re-printed as an article on Monday, she raises a number of points that we will be addressing over the course of the coming days and weeks.

She wrote, “What about the toxic plume headed toward Lincoln40? Is it going to be investigated? Apparently, the developer wants to ignore this issue. What about the health and safety issues to the residents from the volatile toxics that need to be analyzed as to their impacts sooner or later? The City would be liable for any health issues later that emerged if this project is allowed to move forward without a complete analysis is this plume. The developers responsible for this and the City needs to not subsidize this Lincoln40 problem either. Why is there no Vanguard discussion about this?”

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"He writes that “my research and evaluation concluded that the JF Wilson Site is a location of extensive contamination by the chlorinated solvent TCE.”  There were early attempts to remediate some of the contamination by the Water Board."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.davisvanguard.org/2017/08/analysis-assessing-impacts-lincoln40-part-2-toxic-plume/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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