[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Former Alameda Naval Air Station (CA) contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Alameda delves into base contamination concerns

By Michele Ellson
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
October 6, 8008

City officials are girding for fresh clashes over the cleanup of toxic 
contaminants at the former Alameda Naval Air Station.

One is over the cleanup of radioactive dirt and other potential 
contaminants at the site of a former landfill in the northwest corner of 
the shuttered Navy base. The second concerns possible contaminants left 
behind at the North Housing Parcel — land which could be used for 
housing and services for homeless people.

"Contaminated land should not be passed to any future nonprofit. The 
Navy should have the liability for any property they contaminated," 
Councilman Frank Matarrese, acting as a member of the Alameda Reuse and 
Redevelopment Authority board, said at a meeting the board held Wednesday.

Matarrese said the city could sue the Navy to try to get it to foot any 
additional North Housing Parcel cleanup bill.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_10652938?nclick_check=1

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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
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