[CPEO-MEF] PCBs at former Army test lab in Sausalito (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil with PCBs found at former Sausalito lab

Jim Staats
Marin Independent Journal
December 20, 2005


Eighteen dump truck loads of contaminated soil must be removed from a 
former U.S. Army testing lab in Sausalito where tests have found high 
levels of toxic chemicals, federal officials said.

Paul Feldman, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 
Sacramento, said a 2002 examination of soil beneath the lab at 25 
Libertyship Way found polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and petroleum 
hydrocarbons, cancer-causing chemicals the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency banned in 1977.

"The distribution over the site is fairly widespread, even though at a 
low level," he said.

The two-story, 37,500-square-foot site, adjacent to the San Francisco 
Bay Model, has been operated by the San Francisco District of the U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers since 1948. It was used for geotechnical and 
chemical testing until the late 1990s.

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