[CPEO-IRF] Camp Parks, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Parks has polluted history

ALAN ELIAS
Contra Costa Times (CA)
July 20, 2006

ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP - Efforts continue to slowly but steadily move 
forward progress toward the eventual transfer of some land on the Parks 
Reserve Forces Training Area (Camp Parks) over to the city and 
developers for a mixed-use development.

Among the next steps are the final planning and implementation of an 
environmental clean-up of Parks RFTA land that, over the years, had been 
contaminated by the Armed Forces owners.

According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, 
among the "22 areas of concern" are an arsenic drum disposal pit with 
about 6 to 7 truckloads of pesticide-contaminated soil, a former 
incinerator, underground storage tanks, a landfill and fuel spills. In 
addition to pesticides, the environmental clean-up crews will have to 
contend with PCBs, fuel solvents, metals and radiological and medical 
waste that were buried or spilled onto the land.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/15080887.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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