[Military Environmental Forum] REUSE, PFAS: Former Alameda Naval Air Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Touring Alameda Point with Base Realignment and Closure

By David Boitano
Alameda Post (CA)
September 1, 2026

These days, signs of development are everywhere at Alameda Point. The former Alameda Naval Air Station now sports shiny new apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial uses in what were former aircraft hangers, beer breweries, and some good restaurants.

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All that progress would not be possible without the help of federal environmental engineers whose efforts are vital when converting a former military base into a civilian community. And on Saturday, August 22, a group of interested Alameda residents, along with one or two officials and some environmentalists, got a glimpse of how they work.

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The ground at one site, close to the Oakland Inner Harbor, contained high concentrations of toxic PFAS which is used in foam sprayed on shipboard fires. “It’s basically a chemical that doesn’t break down,” Bollweg said. “It’s made to resist natural breakdown.”

The team must come up with a way to clean it up, but in the meantime, they have installed a 700-foot carbon barrier to keep the toxics from leaking into San Francisco Bay. That has yielded some results. Tests have shown some lower chemical levels within the barrier.


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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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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