My word: Where Alameda Point's cleanup is at year's end
By Richard Bangert/My Word
Oakland Tribune (CA)
December 29, 2011
The past year had some high points and low points in the cleanup
process at Alameda Point. Added delays, including a pile-driving
surprise, were balanced out by steady progress.
The year saw, among other things, completion of a second Point-wide
radiological survey of buildings and structures that identified two
building interiors needing radium remediation, a new soil scan for
radium on a section of the western runway area, replacement of a
storm drain segment next to the Seaplane Lagoon, and preparation of
the environmental document for the Berkeley Lab site, which will be
useful whether we get the lab or not.
The contractor preparing to cover the old dump with rocks and soil at
the northwest tip of Alameda Point delivered some embarrassing news
to the Navy. In the normal course of their duties, work-plan design
testing revealed that the shape of part of the contamination did not
match the official description. You would think they could just
process a work-order change. But the Superfund law requires an
additional two-year review process, which will push the completion of
this open space opportunity to 2015.
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For the entire column, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_19640261
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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