[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, REUSE: Chevron to cleanup oil refinery waste at former Alameda Naval Air Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chevron Drilling for Oil at Alameda Point 
Company will clean up tar left behind by kerosene refinery

By Richard Bangert 
Alameda Post (CA)
May 23, 2023 


Thanks to leadership at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Water Board), Chevron Corporation will be cleaning up residual petroleum at a former refinery site it once owned at Alameda Point.

The true extent of the contamination is unknown, which is why Chevron is first taking soil samples at 43 spots around the open field next to the self-storage business near the intersection of West Oriskany Avenue and Skyhawk Street. The investigation work was announced in a Work Notice/Fact Sheet from the Regional Water Board. Work began on May 15 and will continue until May 26. Their findings will provide the basis for a cleanup plan.

The petroleum cleanup site was put on the shelf until now because the Navy and the City of Alameda figured that it was not causing any harm, therefore nothing had to be done until a developer purchased the lot. The Regional Water Board, which has sole regulatory authority over petroleum cleanup, instead wanted to close the books on this outstanding cleanup site

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For the entire article, see
https://alamedapost.com/news/chevron-drilling-for-oil-at-alameda-point/print/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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