As noted in the Times-Standard this morning the Eureka City Council will hold a special meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, September 30th at 4:00 that will take place on the Balloon Track. To attend, head to Commercial between Waterfront Drive and Second Street. The meeting will include a tour of the controversial property now owned by Security National who intend to build a fancy mall.
The meeting will be followed by the Jeff Leonard Show, otherwise known as a “Community Forum” on the interim clean-up plan for the property. The blessed event will commence at 6:30 at the Wharfinger.
your colors are showing if you don’t schedule the game then the scores don’t count, for a guy going broke i like Arkley and his moxie
More people will come if they serve punch and pie.
Not sure about pie but punch might be a possibility.
is that a threat?
Wear your rubber boots. You can’t tell what you’ll be stepping on. CUE IV obviously doesn’t know!
Jeff’s forum: designed to be a giant PR job for the regional water quality board’s half-assed cleanup plan.
Jeff: why weren’t you at the meeting where a real, substantive, OFFICIAL forum was requested of the water board by the council? Where the interim cleanup plan could be confronted and debated in an official capacity, rather than just an anecdotal, off-the-record way?
You coulda had the real thing, Jeff. Why settle for a pale imitation?
This has nothing to do with the original post, but the 5th Circuit federal appeals court has partially overturned the Palco bankruptcy ruling.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions%5Cpub%5C08/08-40746-CV0.wpd.pdf
Water quality will never happen in Humboldt, the pulp mill killed the bay decades ago, and loggers and pot heads made it so you can’t drink from a shallow, h
Humboldt well ever again unless you like heavy metals and getting cancer.
The best we can hope for is to fix up the downtown core and hope the Chinese will buy the town to save us from our debt on useless structures, and a local government that steals openly.
You’re not your usual cheerful self this morning BF. Is everything ok?
The Chinese already bought the town a few years ago with the help of the Chamber of Commerce and a few local politicians.
They used taxpayer money to steal the pulp mill technology and export it to Viet Nam and then left the hulk on the peninsula.
You are late to lunch, Black Flag.
have a peaceful day
Bill
So the Vietnamese were in on it too? How come I’m always the last to know?
because you watch television and drink fluoride
Alas- I hang my head in shame.
It looks like only 35% to 40% of the balloon tract has been mapped for hot spots and the resulting chemical plume. That is from the water boards map of tested spots. The history of testing goes back into the 1970s, but only recently has the testing included dioxins. So there is a long way to go in this cleanup process. Interesting information at the water board forum at the Warfinger tonight.
35-45% where did you get that figure? I saw the map too-its covered with sampling data markers.
Has was learn last night only six of those sites actually looked for Doxin.
The map was covered with dots and Water Quality sounds like they are going after spots where they know dixons will show. What more do you want?
There was lots of space between those dots on the map. On a thirty + acre map, that represents many hundreds of feet between the dots. I was probably being generous.
Time to get Real, its time to get real please explain what you mean by putting the dots closer together. If a sample comes back positive what would be the point in moving ten feet over for another sample? I would wager the point is to discover the location and severity of contaminants… not look for the speck of dirt that might be ‘clean’.
exactly… and if the Intermediate Action is to remove debris and contaminants Might you admit that some dioxins would be leaving the Balloon Track?? Lets all get real and vote for packing this shit up and sending it to an approved toxic waste disposal site.
The dots are not ten feet apart in most cases. There are some areas where the concentration of testholes is more. But I doubt that most of those dots were less than 500 feet from each other. Some of the tests date back to the 1970′s and hot spots tend to drift with rain runoff and subsurface water table movement, i.e. plume. One has been found drifting from the mill next door onto the property. It is a very complicated picture on the balloon tract. There was enough concern, by the water board, relating to rain runoff into the bay, that one of the requirements was to trap rain water in the middle of the property. And yes, some of the dioxins will be removed in the initial phase, but that in no way insures that all has been removed.
How do you trap 40 inches of rainwater?
can’t you people get a grip that removing debris and grading to keep contamination at least on the site and not running into the bay is an improvement? Why don’t you start listening to the facts instead of parroting crap from your BayKeeper cheerleading sessions this is ridiculous! I totally give up on this blog crap because youve got your heads up each other’s asses and you’re trying to stop a Brownfield cleanup its absurd! Im not wasting any more time trying to convince you otherwise.
anon 12:44 demonstrates a poor grasp of the complexities of the realities of cleanup process, policy and regulation. Moreover, he/she clearly possesses/feigns great naivete about the political realities of businesses and how they shortchange their responsibilities/minimize their liabilities in regard to making things right with their messes.