[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, REUSE: Wyle Labs site, Norco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Norco to consider buying the former Wyle lab site


By LESLIE PARRILLA
Riversie Press-Enterprise
January 18, 2010

City officials are expected to discuss Wednesday purchasing contaminated 
land that formerly housed Wyle Laboratories.

Land owner EnviroFinance Group, of Sacramento, is asking the city to 
consider buying the land, and delay rezoning it for 90 days, in exchange 
for giving the city exclusive negotiating rights.

...

The 429-acre property on Hillside Avenue had been used to test defense 
and aerospace products from 1959 until 2004, when it closed. Community 
concerns led to testing after the property was sold to a developer who 
planned to build homes there. The tests found known and suspected 
cancer-causing contaminants, contaminated soil, groundwater and vapor 
that travel up through the ground, pesticides, heavy metals and 
suspected carcinogens perchlorate and tetrachloroethylene, or TCE.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_wwyle19.3545512.html

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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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