[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATURAL RESOURCES: Mare Island Shipyard (CA) team earns award

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mare Island environmental cleanup earns federal award

By Jessica A. York
Vallejo Times-Herald
November 2, 2012

Recent years' environmental cleanup efforts focused on the former  
Mare Island Naval Shipyard have garnered federal accolades,  
recognized in a small ceremony on the island Thursday morning.

The Department of Navy Base Realignment Closure (BRAC) Program  
Management Office, which oversees the closure of former military  
bases like Mare Island's, earned one of the Department of Defense's  
2012 Secretary of Environmental Awards.

The Mare Island's project entry focused on its environmental  
restoration. The awarding panel commended contractor Weston  
Solutions' cleanup effort to cap a southern island landfill area,  
once littered with munitions. Those endeavors resulted in the  
creation of 8.7 acres of new wetlands, improvement of existing  
wetlands and creation of new public access trails. During the  
process, steps were taken to protect the state and federally listed  
endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, use local Mare Island dirt for  
fill and cap design innovation to drain surface water runoff into the  
wetlands.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_21912029/mare-island- 
environmental-cleanup-sweeps-competition-earns-federal

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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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