The 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... »
Environmental 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... »
Restoration 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... »
At 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... »
On the last day of January I took a stroll around Alameda Point, a vast wasteland of decrepit structures abandoned by the Navy and now studded by the ventures of brave entrepreneurs, from wineries to an athletic club. You never know what you’ll find go... »
Right 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... »
Designing 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 ... »
USS Hornet Museum and Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum to Pay Tribute to WWII Aviator General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Special commemoration to honor 70th Anniversary of Tokyo Aerial Attack Surviving Doolittle Raiders will attend Tribute to shar... »
