[CPEO-IRF] Mare Island dredge ponds

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Mare Island's dredge ponds might reopen
Some homeowners not happy with idea

By CHRIS G. DENINA,
Vallejo Times Herald (CA)
September 22, 2005

As early as next summer, Mare Island's seven unused dredge ponds may
once again take in spoils from local waterways. 

That has some homeowners concerned, despite assurances from the project
developer. The residents aren't keen on the idea of sharing Vallejo's
former military base with levees filled with sludge scooped from the
bottom of the San Francisco Bay. 

Vallejo officials long have aimed to reopen the dredge ponds under the
city's reuse plans for the old base. But since people began moving in
this summer into the first new houses built in decades, folks are
starting to notice. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_3052104

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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