[CPEO-BIF] "Contaminated soil at old Vallco site puts redevelopment on hold, " Cupertino, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated soil at old Vallco site puts redevelopment on hold
County environmental health officials must sign off on plans to clean it up

By GRACE HASE 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
January 17, 2022 

CUPERTINO — Before shovels break ground to officially kick off construction of the new Vallco Town Center, property owners will have to rid the 50-acre site of chemicals left behind from several dry cleaners and an old automotive center.

A big cleanup is on the horizon, however.

Vallco property owners submitted updated reports to the Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health last month about the extent of contamination and who could be exposed to it.

Now the fate of the old shopping mall’s redevelopment — which will bring 2,402 homes, 400,000 square feet of retail and 1.8 million square feet of office space to Cupertino — lies in the department’s hands

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/17/contaminated-soil-at-old-vallco-site-puts-redevelopment-on-hold/

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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
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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