[CPEO-BIF] Kruger Foods site, Hayward, California

[Lenny Siegel]

FORMER PICKLE FACTORY IN HAYWARD READY FOR DEVELOPMENT


Bay City News Service
CBS-5 TV (KPIX, San Francisco)
October 4, 2006

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control today announced 
that a three-acre site of a former pickle factory in Hayward, which was 
once contaminated with pesticides, fuel, and perchloroethylene is ready 
for residential development.

The property, which housed the Kruger Foods Inc. pickle factory from 
1950 to 2004, is first in California to be cleaned-up under the 
Brownfields Cleanup Act of 2005, which protects property developers from 
certain liabilities associated with land clean up, the department reported.

According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, 
there are more than 100,000 sites in California designated as 
brownfields--"properties with real or perceived contamination that may 
be vacant or unused due to environmental cleanup costs and liability 
concern."

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For the entire story, see
http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2006/10/04/n/HeadlineNews/BROWNFIELDS-HAYWARD/resources_bcn_html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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