[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Alameda Point (CA) update

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Point Cleanup on Track, Navy Says

by Dennis Evanosky
Alameda Sun (CA)
April 8, 2010

At last Tuesday evening's Alameda Reuse and Rehabilitation (ARRA) confab 
Councilmember Frank Matarrese presented highlights of the last Alameda 
Point Restoration and Advisory Board (RAB) meeting held on March 4.

Matarrese told the council that the Navy is continuing to remove and 
replace radioactively contaminated storm-drain lines that run from 
buildings 5 and 400 and discharge into the Seaplane Lagoon - work the 
Navy must finish before tackling the cleanup of the contaminated 
sediment in the lagoon itself. The Navy says that it is preparing to 
sample the sediment in the lagoon to aid in the removal of any 
radioactive sediment.

The Navy also reported that its contractors have excavated and disposed 
of contaminated soil around an incinerator once located at the corner of 
Main Street and West Tower Avenue. Contractors continue to treat 
petroleum-contaminated groundwater near the entrance to the old base at 
Atlantic Avenue.

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For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6801&Itemid=10

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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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