My apartment was built on toxic waste

Re:My apartment was built on toxic waste by treis on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:46AM (#26690382)

We're talking about an old farm with slightly above threshold levels of pesticides. At least that's what I could tell by reading the environmental report. It just strains credulity that it could be off-gassing that much.

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Re:My apartment was built on toxic waste by GavinMcG on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:07PM (#26690598)

FTA:

From 1974-1985, Synertek, Inc., leased the area directly uphill from where the Santa Clara Square Apartments currently stand. Synertek manufactured semiconductors, crucial to the production of microchips for computers and other technologies. The manufacturing involved highly toxic chemicals, and several tanks stored underground on site leaked VOCs into the groundwater, contaminating the soil around the area. In 1987, the area was deemed a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency. In spite of this, or the VOCs known to be on site of the SCSA property, the DTSC did not make VOCs a part of their remediation plan for the apartments

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Re:My apartment was built on toxic waste by jeffbee on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:09PM (#26691114)

If you are interested in primary sources, the water board site for the Synertek cleanup is at https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report?global_...

This 2006 site report does not show the pollution extending under the apartment site, but who knows.

https://documents.geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/regulators/d...

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