Is this East Bay refinery-turned-housing-development a model for reclaiming contaminated sites? – East Bay Times
HERCULES — On the surface, Victoria by the Bay is a charming neighborhood of 926 homes only a short walk from the shores of San Pablo Bay. But the ground beneath the roughly 200-acre development was once home to the former Pacific Refinery Co., a facility built in 1966 that produced 55,000 barrels of oil daily and stored other hazardous substances in the northernmost corner of Hercules, adjacent to Rodeo. Amid a bleak economic outlook for the fossil fuel industry at the time, the facility was decommissioned in the summer…
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