[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Toxic cleanup at Concord Naval Weapons Station [CA] doesn’t ease concerns"

[Lenny Siegel]

Toxic cleanup at Concord Naval Weapons Station doesn’t ease concerns

By ANNIE SCIATICA 
Bay Area News Group
November 2, 2018 

CONCORD - Officials overseeing the cleanup of the Concord Naval Weapons Station tried to reassure City Council members this week that the arduous task of removing toxic materials left behind by the Navy is on the right track.

But after a year in which it became public that some soil tests at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard site in San Francisco had been falsified and much of the dirt was trucked to the Keller Canyon Landfill in Pittsburg, worries about potential environmental danger to residents of planned housing there still linger.

Vice Mayor Carlyn Obringer said at the meeting that although the presentation at Tuesday night’s special meeting by officials from the Navy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the regional water board and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control was “informative,” she continues to have reservations about the cleanup process.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/11/01/toxic-cleanup-at-concord-naval-weapons-station-doesnt-ease-concerns/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org