Environmental Sunshine

While the City’s Sunshine Task Force toils under weighty issues like campaign finance reform, I have a little side bit of environmental sunshine I’ve digging for answers on. What-all is really left to us from the Navy in terms of toxics like lead, asbestos, arsenic, VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) depleted uranium even???
Check out this laundry list for a rough idea at least of what’s out there, and where:

http://cfpub.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Contams&id=0902731

Though this is really a federal issue from the historical perspective, in my excavation I discovered that the big, multi-million dollar study for much of the Naval Air Station is being done right now by the city, and on SunCal’s dime no less, under the scope of what could be done out there and what needs to be cleaned up and how? It’s called an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).

But excitement must be tempered by the fact that such work takes more time than SunCal has left with the city under the current ENA (that’s city-speak for Exclusive Negotiations Agreement). Fortunately, this is something the Mayor and Council can readily extend. The question is will they choose to do so, or would they rather just not know, perhaps?

Don’t get me wrong, the developer is not funding the city’s study out of the goodness of their hearts. They sure hope there will be good enough news in that EIR to allow them to move forward under the ENA and do what developers do, build stuff. We’ve blogged before about how these guys probably really aren’t so bad, especially with the local treasury hurting from too many needs and too little cash flow.

I guess this is just one more bit of Sunshine it’d be good to have from SunCal and here’s to hoping the elected down at city hall give ‘em the time for completion of that report.