[CPEO-IRF] Cleaning the El Toro (CA) Great Park

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Great Park Grounds Will Need Scrubbing
Toxic substances must be removed and tons of concrete hauled off the 
base before Irvine can make its 1,300-acre dream come true.

By Jean O. Pasco
Los Angeles Times
January 25, 2006

With the naming of a master designer this week for the Orange County 
Great Park, supporters are agleam with its potential. Now comes the hard 
part: dealing with toxic leftovers at the former El Toro Marine base in 
Irvine where the park will be located.

About 900 acres of concrete and asphalt runways must be pulverized and 
carted away. As much as 700,000 pounds of toxic substances may have 
seeped from an aging sewage system, and soil and groundwater were fouled 
by industrial solvents, pesticides and jet fuel dumped during the base's 
56 years of operation.

Federal environmental officials in 1990 named El Toro one of the 
nation's most contaminated military bases and still consider portions of 
it Orange County's most tainted land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-greatpark25jan25,0,7165348.story?coll=la-home-local

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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