[CPEO-IRF] Mare Island dredge ponds

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Developer's $2.7M offer may not be very useful

By CHRIS G. DENINA
Vallejo Times Herald 
October 20, 2005

A Mare Island developer's unsolicited offer this week of $2.7 million
for the city to drop a dredge pond project may be too little and too
late. 

Too little because some groups that stand to receive $700,000 of the
payout if the city takes the deal say the money may not buy much in the
long term. 

And too late because Vallejo officials say they already have a deal with
Weston Solution Inc., pending some approvals, to reopen seven ponds to
store materials scooped from the bottom of local waterways. 

Still, Lennar Mare Island LLC's offer apparently is helping ease at
least one new homeowner's concerns over the ponds. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_3134857

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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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