Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
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Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#2Same with a lot of neighborhoods in NYC, even trendy ones like Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Always research what your building is built on top of before you sign the lease.
Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#3Perhaps it is true that the federal government has no standards for brownfield cleanup, but that does not mean no standards exist. The California Water Quality Control Board and the Department of Toxic Substances Control are responsible for coordinating cleanups of these sites to objective standards required for habitation, commercial development, schools, parks, or whatever. You can see the DTSC activities for the Sherwin-Williams site at https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report?glo...
Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#4Emeryville started as a mudflat on the Bay where they'd drive cattle to slaughterhouses and leather tanners. It smelled real bad so they did it way out in the middle of nowhere.
It sort of became the place for messy industry, when just burying the bad junk was considered sufficient.
Company I worked for had major construction project for their campus expansion, but it took a while to clear the PG&E transformer storage lot of decades of PCB leakage.
Poly chlorinated biphenyls are nasty. Almost as nasty as the heavy metal contamination of the Sherwin-Williams Paint factory across the way.
The merely-poisonous-at-quantity horseradish processing facility was a breath of fresh air... and is now part of the Pixar-plex.
What with all the major construction over the past 30 years, there have been ongoing cleanup efforts. I don't know how realistic my optimism is, but it's way cleaner than it was in the 1980s.
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#5Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
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#6Emeryville is near the tunnel: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#7Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
Emeryville is a 10 minute drive from SF, or 1 mile away from a BART station that gets you to SF in 15 minutes. It is a suburb of SF or a suburb in the SF Bay Area.
Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#8Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
Emeryville is a 10 minute drive from SF, or 1 mile away from a BART station that gets you to SF in 15 minutes. It is a suburb of SF or a suburb in the SF Bay Area.
I would have called it a suburb of Oakland :)
No mention of the haunted IKEA either
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#9I wish I had more to point at rn but, hemp crops can help pull toxins from soil. Other crops too , can help with a "brown zone" but hemp (and it's cousin) get more press.
Re: Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
#10Emeryville started as a mudflat on the Bay where they'd drive cattle to slaughterhouses and leather tanners. It smelled real bad so they did it way out in the middle of nowhere. It sort of became the place for messy industry, when just burying the bad junk was considered sufficient. Company I worked for had major construction project for their campus expansion, but it took a while to clear the PG&E transformer storag…
Sounds remarkably similar to the Love Canal in the history of dirty industry.