[CPEO-IRF] Housing in Alameda (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Alamedans to meet on housing project
Toxic control agency wants residents' input on proposed pollution 
prevention system

By Hanna Tamrat
Inside Bay Area/Oakland Tribune
September 21, 2006

ALAMEDA - The state's toxic control agency invites the public tonight to 
comment on city plans for an interim toxic-prevention solution. The 
project involved: affordable housing units on petroleum-contaminated 
soil at the former Navy supply center near College of Alameda.

Referred to as the "39-unit affordable housing" project, the $14.3 
million plan includes three two-story buildings surrounding a courtyard 
with a teen center and a raised-bed vegetable garden.

A year after the Navy closed the center in 1998, contaminants were found 
in the soil and a groundwater plume at the site.

Since then, the Navy has cleaned up the soil but has yet to treat 
groundwater from which benzene and naphtalene migrated into the soil. 
The contaminants are carcinogens known to cause health problems, 
including cancer, if inhaled, especially in enclosed areas.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_4372875

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org

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