[CPEO-MEF] Portland (OR) waterfront cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

South Waterfront's Zidell segment cleanup costs tagged at $7 million 
A family spokesman says the work would be more extensive and costly than
first discussed 

DYLAN RIVERA
The Oregonian
February 01, 2005


On Monday, the state's environmental agency proposed a cleanup plan for
the Zidell family's South Waterfront barge operation that could cost the
Portland family and federal taxpayers $7 million. 

Jay Zidell, president of landowner ZRZ Realty, said the cleanup
requirements -- more stringent than the family expected -- could have
"very significant cost implications." But he said the family did not
immediately know whether the plan would inhibit development of high-rise
office and condo buildings as part of a massive city-backed
redevelopment. 

As a result of a 2001 lawsuit settlement, the federal government would
foot about 35 percent, or $2.45 million, of the cleanup bill. The
Zidells argued in court that because some of the contamination came from
ships they had built for the U.S. Navy, the government had a
responsibility for part of the cleanup cost. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1107262570231671.xml

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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>
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