[CPEO-IRF] Alameda (CA) Navy dump site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City Begs for EPA Intervention on Navy Mess

Marc Albert
Alameda Sun (CA)
July 20, 2007

City officials, aghast at a Navy plan to shroud a toxic dump site at the 
former Naval Air Station Alameda with a thin layer of dirt, are calling 
on federal and state officials to intervene and clean up the site.

City officials, aghast at a Navy plan to shroud a toxic dump site at the 
former Naval Air Station Alameda with a thin layer of dirt, are calling 
on federal and state officials to intervene and clean up the site.

In a strongly worded letter, the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment 
Authority said "fatal flaws" existed in proposed plans by the Navy to 
bury the site under four feet of dirt.

The site, at the northwest corner of Alameda Point, at the edge of a 
landing strip, was the main disposal area on the base from 1943 until 
1956. More recent veterans said street sweeping debris along with other 
detritus of military operations were regularly dumped on the site well 
into the 1980s.

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For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1761&Itemid=10

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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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