[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Much of [former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station] is removed from list of hazardous sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Much of old Irvine air base is removed from list of hazardous sites
More than 1,900 acres of the retired Marine Corps Air Station El Toro  
in Irvine have been cleaned up, the EPA announces.

By Tony Barboza
Los Angeles Times
January 27, 2014


More than 1,900 acres of the retired Marine Corps Air Station El Toro  
in Irvine have been cleaned up and removed from the list of the  
nation's most hazardous sites after more than two decades, the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.

Officials said that $165 million in soil removal and groundwater  
treatment by the U.S. Navy and local water agencies has cleaned up  
contamination at much of the old World War II-era air base, to the  
point it no longer poses a risk to human health or the environment.

The deletion of all but 600 acres of the El Toro site from the  
federal Superfund list, finalized last week, clears one obstacle to  
turning some of the old military property into the Orange County  
Great Park and thousands of homes.

"It will allow us to move forward with development of the Great Park  
in an accelerated manner," said Jeff Lalloway, mayor pro tem of  
Irvine and chairman of the Great Park board of directors.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-0128-el- 
toro-20140128,0,303230.story

See also
http://www.costar.com/News/Article/OC-Approves-Development-Pact-With- 
Lowe-Enterprise-for-El-Toro-Base/156771

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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