Trucks Moving Dirt Uncovered at Candlestick Point
Thursday 23 July 2015 02:15:54 PM
Location: Candlestick Point Stadium
Category: Air
Description:
Trucks hauling dirt into the Candlestick Point Stadium demolition and construction project are uncovered and driving on the roads. This has been recported to 866-Lennar. I have gotten a call back from Jermaine Smith, but no explanation why. I called on 7-23, got a call back on 7-24. Jermaine Smith told me he would notify the contractor. Today, July 28, trucks are still moving dirt uncovered. Huge piles of new dirt are untreated and uncovered. Wind gusts went up to 24 mph in the afternoon today, which is very typical, according to our wind-speed monitor. (You can view the data at storksandcabbages.com and see that at around 4pm every day the wind gusts somewhere between 20 and 25 mph.) This is a significant concern for our community regarding dust management in the Candlestick Point demolition site.
Comments
Author: Regan Patterson
Email: reganfp@berkeley.edu
Description:
The BVHP IVAN Task Force has forwarded this complaint to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the SF Department of Public Health.
Author: Karen Cohn
Email: karen.cohn@sfdph.org
Description:
In response to this complaint, Jonathan Piakis, DPH Industrial Hygienist, investigated this issue last week with Jeff Austin, one of the site's environmental consultants, and he learned that the trucks importing clean soil are not Lennar contractors, but rather they are independent vendors delivering soil under the requirements of Caltrans regulations. Caltrans allows for wetting of the imported soil as an allowable dust suppression alternative to tarping.
Author: Matt McCarron
Email: Matthew.McCarron@dtsc.ca.gov
Description:
Orginal reply: Unless the dirt was already characterize as hazardous waste, then this dust/airborne contaminate would normally be addressed by BAAQMD and/or City Code enforcement which issued the demolition or other related building grading permit and would set conditions for covering the trucks in the city. SF Public Health should also be notified. Please see Ms. Cohn's note above for more details by investigator. Matt McCarron Hazardous Waste Management Program CA Department of Toxic Substances Control
Author: Alona Davis, BAAQMD
Email: adavis@baaqmd.gov
Description:
Air District Inspector Dick Rodriguez has investigated the issue with Lennar. The company, Pacific State, trucks uncovered imported materials to the Candlestick Point construction site from Bayland Soils in Brisbane and other locations. Inspector Rodriguez found that the company is not in violation of Air District regulations by driving with uncovered loads. The Air District enforces the site’s Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan (AMDP). The ADMP has requirements for offsite transport of materials that are generated on site, including wetting and either tarping the material or maintaining a freeboard and maximum load height in the truck bed. Loose soil or sand leaving the site should always be covered. An inspector goes to the site almost every weekday and some weekends and looks for violations of this type.
Author: Tony Verreos
Email: tony@verreos.com
Description:
I'm curious who determines that dirt is contaminated or not contaminated? When untarped, how much water is need to keep a load from quickly drying and blowing off a truck during transit? We have mountains of concrete and dirt on the Baylands in Brisbane, and the dust mitigation measures used seem totally ineffective. We don't even understand how the contractor ever got a permit for that operation in that location?
Author: Karen Cohn
Email: karen.cohn@sfdph.org
Description:
Information on the Candlestick Stadium demolition and construction project dust and asbestos control and air monitoring can be found on this website established by the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure: http://sfocii.org/index.aspx?page=446