[CPEO-BIF] "Developers want to build 4, 000 homes on" Zeneca site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developers want to build 4,000 homes on a toxic East Bay site. Activists want a full cleanup first

by Sarah Ravani 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 11, 2020 

Sherry Padgett’s activism started in 2004 after she developed cancerous tumors on her left ribs, fibroid tumors in her uterus and had to have her thyroid removed because of cancer.

She could never prove her illness was linked to her time spent working across the street from a polluted site in Richmond. But when other workers near her electrical business told her they had similar health issues, Padgett embarked on a nearly 17-year battle to get the city to fully clean up the site.

“I was pissed,” Padgett said. “There was so much dirt and dust in the air that street lights would come on during the day.”

Now, the Richmond City Council is moving forward with plans to develop up to 4,000 residential units and a 20,000-square-foot grocery store on part of the 86-acre property known as the Zeneca site, just east of Marina Bay and west of Interstate 580. Though the land has undergone cleanup for years, it is still polluted with more than 100 chemicals from factories that once animated the site.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Developers-want-to-build-4-000-homes-on-a-15792866.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email

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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
http://www.cpeo.org





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