[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, SEDIMENT: Former Naval Training Center boat channel, San Diego, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Once tainted by DDT, Navy’s former NTC boat channel is now clean and ready to become part of Liberty Station 
Navy is ready to transfer cleaned-up channel to San Diego; city expects to owe Navy millions for environmental remediation

BY DAVID GARRICK
San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
September 27, 2022 

SAN DIEGO —  San Diego officials have hired a law firm to help them complete acquisition of the Naval Training Center boat channel, the final 57 acres of the defunct military base promised to the city two decades ago for the Liberty Station mixed-use development.

Transfer of the land has been delayed several years by the U.S. Navy’s need to complete expensive and complex environmental cleanup of the site, which was contaminated with copper, lead, zinc and total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane — also known as DDT.

With the cleanup completed last year, San Diego officials say they expect the Navy to sue the city sometime soon to recover part of the costs for the cleanup. A spokesperson for City Attorney Mara Elliott said the city’s costs are expected to be in the millions.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2022-09-27/ntc-boat-channel-liberty-station-transfer-clean-up-ddt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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