Lawrence Berkley Laboratory Corrective Action - Site Cleanup Public Workshop & Public Hearing, North Berkeley Senior Center May 26, 2005. Produced by Berkeley Citizen

Speakers include: Waqar Ahmad, Project Manager DTSC - Calvin Willhite, Toxicologist DTSC - Mohinder Sandhu, Branch Chief DTSC - Michael B. Rochelle, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board - Nabil Al Hadithy, City of Berkeley - Berkeley Residents, Pamela Sihvola and L A Wood

Note: On April 19th, 2000, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board adopted Order No. 00-025 thereby amending SB 92-49 and the San Francisco Basin Groundwater Plan. This containment zone policy was directed at the East Bay watershed, especially in Berkeley. This action reduced vital protections and cleanup requirements for our municipal groundwater resources.

The regulatory dismemberment of Berkeley’s environmental protections has allowed DOE and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab to avoid any significant site cleanup. Under these circumstances, the state regulators’ public comments, as seen in the 2005 DTSC workshop video, were willfully dishonest. - Berkeley Citizen

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

• LBNL Plans For Cleanup Challenged At Hearing
  By Richard Brenneman, May 31, 2005
• Appeal - DTSC’s Decision For the Approval of Corrective Measures Study Report and Remedy Selection for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  To: Watson Gin, Deputy Director, Hazardous Waste Management Program, DTSC. September 30, 2005
• Re: General comments on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Draft Corrective Measures Study
  To: Waqar Ahmad, Project Manager, Department of Toxic Substances Control & Hemant Patel, Project Manager US Department of Energy. July 20, 2004
• Re: (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) Corrective Action at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/CMS (Corrective Measures Study) Report
• To: San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control BoardRCRA July 20, 2004
• RCRA MAPS (2004) Corrective Measures Study Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
• Community Imput to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory RCRA Process June 20, 2003
  To: Mohinder Sandhu, Chief, Northtern California Permitting Branach Department of Toxic Substances Control

Related Issues:

• Final Public Hearing of the San Francisco Regional Water Control Board on amendments to SB 92-49 and the SF Basin Groundwater Plan that include the East Bay watershed. April 19, 2000
• California's Choice: Containment Zones or Clean Water?
  L A Wood, California Environmental Law Reporter, April 1996
• California's Brownfields Initiative: The Toxic Crisis
  L A Wood, California Environmental Law Reporter, May 1996, Volume 1996 Issue 5