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was completed and a corrective action plan was designed. The plan which includes a natural resource damage assessment will cordon off the AOC with steel sheet piling and have the contaminated muds and sediment dredged and pumped into a disused treatment pond. In that treatment pond the toxic waste
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Between 1999 and 2001 benthic toxicity tests found PAHs and mercury levels at up to 507 mg/kg and 13 mg/kg respectively at this site and a 20-acre (81,000 m) portion was designated as an area of concern (AOC). The most contaminated, AOC is adjacent to the former wastewater outfall
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or cement. The inactive pond will then be regraded and capped with vegetation. The remediation project is scheduled for the summer of 2007.
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began to plan cleanup of the site and pressured
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842:37.956°N 122.401°W
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743:Ferry Point
589:Castro Cove
491:Stege Marsh
461:Giant Marsh
417:Rheem Creek
198:August 2018
161:(PAHs) and
81:Chevron USA
33:Castro Cove
860:Categories
830:37°57′22″N
584:Campus Bay
254:2022-10-22
231:References
26:Californio
753:Kozy Kove
604:Kozy Kove
123:Pollution
101:steelhead
85:estuarine
79:owned by
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107:. Other
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59:Overview
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