[CPEO-BIF] "California OK’s plan to cap, not remove, toxic soil from..." Zeneca site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

California OK’s plan to cap, not remove, toxic soil from East Bay brownfield
Activists had urged the state authority to require a more stringent cleanup of the former toxic waste dump in Richmond

By ALI TADAYON 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
October 28, 2019

RICHMOND - Going against environmental activists’ pleas, the state toxic substances authority is allowing an 86-acre brownfield to be capped over with concrete rather than requiring the soil be removed ahead of a proposal to build 4,000 apartments there.

California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control announced Friday that it approved the final cleanup plan for the former AstraZeneca site, which includes removing some of the more “heavily contaminated” soil, treating the groundwater and installing a system to filter extract toxic soil vapor in addition to pouring concrete over the soil to prevent people from coming into contact with it and from stormwater from carrying contaminants.

The Richmond City Council, in September, voted 5-2 to endorse the capping cleanup method. Dozens of activists flooded the meeting opposing that cleanup method, saying that it doesn’t go far enough to make sure people living at the future development are safe from the contaminants.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/10/28/california-oks-plan-to-cap-not-remove-toxic-soil-from-east-bay-brownfield/

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