Springtime flower spectacle on Wildlife Refuge at Alameda Point – April 2012
Apr 25Filed under: Wildlife Refuge Tagged: Alameda Point, flowers, Wildlife Refuge »
The latest about Alameda from Alameda Point Environmental Report
Environmental law group comments on city/VA/East Bay Park District proposal
Apr 18Alameda Point Open Space: East Bay Regional Park District’s Emerging Role and Where to Locate the VA Outpatient Facility Golden Gate University’s Center on Urban Environmental Law (CUEL) recently sent a letter to Robert Doyle, General Manager of the E... »
Springtime wetlands on Northwest Territories – Alameda Point 2012
Apr 05Filed under: Northwest Territories - Public Trust Land, Wetlands, Wildlife Tagged: Alameda Point, birds, nature, Northwest Territories, wetlands »
Adaptive reuse of trash at Alameda Point
Apr 01Lizards go rogue on city’s adaptive reuse plans, setting up multi-family housing complex outside of the adaptive reuse area. The lizards hope that a tire pile discarded in the last century will be grandfathered into reuse plans because of their low-imp... »
Alameda Wildlife Refuge committee touts benefits of VA/parkland deal
Mar 20The following was prepared by Leora Feeney, co-chair of ”Friends of the Alameda Wildlife Refuge,” a committee of the Golden Gate Audubon Society. Delivered to the Alameda City Council on Monday, March 19, 2012, regarding the city-VA-park district prop... »
Seaplane Lagoon cleanup dredging completed [video and slideshow]
Mar 15Environmental cleanup of the Seaplane Lagoon has centered on two areas where storm sewers drain into the lagoon. It was commonplace to discharge all sorts of chemicals down storm sewer lines prior to the passage of the federal Clean Water Act in the e... »
Groundwater cleanup back on track at heat treatment site
Mar 14The groundwater remediation project between two buildings near the East Gate entrance, in the area known as Operating Unit 2B, finally got underway after a long delay in startup since last spring. During set up, one of the 30-foot-long steel electrod... »
Video on open space at Alameda Point
Mar 04Filed under: Parks and Open Space Tagged: Alameda Point, conservation »
March cleanup meeting announced
Mar 02Restoration Advisory Board Naval Air Station, Alameda (Alameda Point) March 8, 2012 6:30 PM Location: Alameda Point – 950 West Mall Square (Alameda City Hall West) Room 140 – Community Conference Room Enter from West Midway Avenue at rear of buil... »
Restoration Advisory Board Responds to Navy’s Meeting Cutbacks
Mar 01At the October 2011 Alameda Point Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meeting, the Navy announced that Alameda Point’s monthly RAB meetings would be reduced to quarterly meetings due to budget cutbacks. The Navy said it would welcome a written response f... »
Todd Shipyards copper cleanup
Jan 31Right next to the Main Street Ferry Terminal, between the Oakland Estuary and the Dog Park, is the Navy’s cleanup Site 28, also known as the Todd Shipyards site. The contamination at this site — copper and arsenic, and to a lesser extent lead and hydr... »
Precision Dredging at the Pier Area – with video
Jan 20Designing the workplan for dredging toxic sediment next to Pier 1 at Alameda Point required precision so as not to undermine the stability of the concrete posts supporting the roadway that passes along the pier area. The ground under the water slopes ... »
Where Alameda Point’s cleanup is at year’s end
Dec 30The past year had some high points and low points in the cleanup process at Alameda Point. Added delays, including a pile-driving surprise, were balanced out by steady progress. The year saw, among other things, completion of a second Point-wide radio... »
Radium Scanning Process at Seaplane Lagoon
Dec 18Every scoop of dirt that was dredged from the Seaplane Lagoon earlier this year is first sorted into premeasured compartments. The piles are then tested for heavy metals, PCBs, and pesticides. But the piles cannot be tested for radium 226. In order ... »
Berkeley Lab Site Environmental Plan Released
Nov 21The Site Management Plan (SMP) for the proposed site of the Berkeley Lab Second Campus at Alameda Point was finalized on November 18. Prepared by the city’s longtime environmental consultant, and signed off on by the Navy and regulatory agencies, the ... »
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