Title
Presentation on Status Report of Environmental Conditions and Clean-up at Alameda Point. (Base Reuse 819099)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Interim City Manager
Re: Presentation on Status Report of Environmental Conditions and Clean-up at Alameda Point
BACKGROUND
Alameda Point was an active United States Navy (Navy) base from 1940 to 1997. While active, as many as 16,000 to 18,000 personnel worked at the Naval Air Station (NAS Alameda). It was selected for closure as part of the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) operational closure round, which occurred in April 1997.
Operations at the base included aircraft maintenance, automotive repair, storage tanks and piping (diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel), painting, paint stripping, machine shops, and a skeet range. Localized areas across Alameda Point became contaminated with residues from these activities. The contaminants include fuels, metals, solvents, PCBs, pesticides, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and, in a few instances, radioluminescent paint residues. The Navy is responsible for the clean-up of contamination associated with its former activities at Alameda Point and has been actively investigating and remediating the property for the last 15+ years, during which time it has spent over $500 million on these efforts. The City's zoning, infrastructure and development plans have been, and will continue to be, coordinated with the Navy's clean-up levels and schedule. The Navy can only transfer the property to the City once the environmental regulators agree that the property has been cleaned to federal standards.
This report provides an overview of the environmental clean-up process at Alameda Point and highlights issues with a few key sites that are undergoing clean-up and/or are scheduled for transfer to the City. The City's environmental consultant, Peter Russell of Russell Resources, who has been the City's ind...
Click here for full text