Moffett Wetlands - community pressure for full cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Public puts pressure on Navy to clean up Moffett 
Extent of restoration is still undecided 

By Jon Wiener
Mountain View Voice (CA)
July 23, 2004 

The Navy faced public pressure last year when it agreed to consider
turning a Moffett Field drainage pond back into a tidal marsh. Now
environmentalists are hoping that it will finally commit to a full
restoration. 

A dozen members of Oakland-based Save The Bay attended a meeting of the
Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) last week to demand a full cleanup at
the site. Backed by several members of the citizens group, they
presented the Navy representatives with a letter signed by 16 local
organizations, including several based in Mountain View, and unfurled a
small banner that read "Navy: Clean up your act. Clean up Moffett." 

Officially called Site 25, the land in question currently serves as a
storm water retention pond for NASA, collecting run-off from Moffett's
runways and drainage ditches during the rainy season. It has been diked
off from the bay for decades, and over that time PCBs, DDT and heavy
metals from the Navy's operations have seeped into the soil. 

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for the entire article,
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2004/2004_07_23.rab.shtml

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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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