[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, COMMUNITY: Alameda Point (CA) tour

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Point Continues to Face Cleanup Challenges

Written by SUSANNAH CHAMPLIN
Alameda Sun (CA)
July 28, 2011


A bus tour of Alameda Point was held on Saturday, July 18 to give  
civilians insight into the Navy's current cleanup project on the  
former base. The Navy is scheduled to remove radiological  
contaminants from both groundwater and soil through 2013, and has  
already made great headway. Tour stops included Building 1, Operable  
Unit 2B, Site 17, Site 1, and Building 5.

Alameda Point became Navy property in 1936 after Congress authorized  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to purchase the land for $1. The Alameda  
Naval Base played an important role in World War II and was nicknamed  
the Navy's "Aviation Gateway to the Pacific," as one of the nation's  
biggest air stations at the time.

The base officially closed on April 25, 1997. In May 2007, the city  
of Alameda negotiated a deal with the Navy with an offer to buy the  
land for $108 million. However, many parts of the base are still  
contaminated and are considered unsafe for human health and plant and  
animal life. Contaminants include metal, pesticides, petroleum and  
oil, polychlorinated biphenals (PCBs) and radium.


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For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=view&id=8866&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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