[CPEO-MEF] COMPLIANCE: Pillar Point Radar Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force storm water plan worries harbor officials
Officials say storm water runoff often polluted

By Julia Scott,
San Mateo County Times (CA)
March 30, 2008

PRINCETON-BY-THE-SEA — Pillar Point Harbor officials are alarmed by a 
proposal by the U.S. Air Force, which runs a nearby radar station, to 
dump stormwater into the harbor — water which historically has been 
polluted.

The Air Force, in an early March report, proposed redirecting storm 
water from the Pillar Point Air Force Station into the west side of the 
harbor, which lies directly below it.

When the new drainage pipe is put in place, it will end the Air Force's 
current practice of dumping untreated storm water onto a beach at the 
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve — water that contains elevated levels of fecal 
coliform bacteria, nitrogen and heavy metals such as copper and zinc.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_8748470

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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