[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES Santa Rosa (CA) Naval Auxiliary Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Santa Rosa airfield park could become a reality - after a decade


By KEVIN McCALLUM
SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT (CA)
May 14, 2011
Dave Hermann moved into his home in the Air Center East subdivision  
in the summer of 2001 expecting his young daughters would grow up in  
a neighborhood with a park nearby.

After all, that's what the Cobblestone Homes sales materials promised.

...

The subdivision sits on the site of the former Santa Rosa Naval  
Auxiliary Air Station. The X-shaped runways were built in 1942 for  
World War II bombers, fighters and transports, and used again as a  
home for Navy fighter planes in the Korean War. It was decommissioned  
in 1952 and used as a civilian airfield until it closed in 1993.

...

One was the discovery that the dirt covering most of the 3-acre park  
site was contaminated with hydrocarbons, most likely from diesel fuel  
and motor oil. Mounds of dirt stockpiled by the developer on the 3.7- 
acre site south of Yeager Drive also contained contamination. The  
contamination was not considered severe, but had to be addressed,  
according to a study.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110514/ARTICLES/110519639? 
Title=Santa-Rosa-airfield-park-could-become-a-reality-after-a-decade

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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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