[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Mt. Umunhum (CA) cleanup funded

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

San Jose's Mount Um receives federal clean-up funds

By Karen de Sá
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
December 21,2009



Mount Umunhum - with panoramic vistas stretching from Monterey Bay to 
San Francisco - has moved one step closer to becoming the destination 
that hikers, joggers and bird-watchers have looked longingly at for decades.

The federal defense budget, signed this weekend by President Barack 
Obama, includes $3.2 million to clean up Mount Um, a site contaminated 
in its former life as an Air Force base and radar station.

The work will help transform San Jose's highest peak into a public 
recreation site at a time when state and county leaders are struggling 
to pay for parks amid devastating budget cuts.

Open space advocates who have spent more than 20 years fighting for the 
funds to demolish lead and asbestos-tainted buildings atop the 
3,486-foot mountain cheered the news, announced by The White House Monday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14044562?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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