Industrial chemicals were dumped on city land for a century
Emeryville is still digging itself out from under its industrial past.
This week, city officials kicked off the complex task of cleaning up roughly 78,000 square-feet of contaminated soil on another city-owned property just across the railroad tracks from the popular Bay Street Emeryville shopping center — which was also excavated before construction. By 2020, the California Department Of Toxic Substances Control ordered Emeryville to clean up the hazardous substances — primarily the industrial solvent trichloroethylene, but also likely materials that contain lead-based paint, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and mercury — that contaminated the soil and groundwater at the site.
Finally, after all of the hazardous soil is collected and removed, James said the next step is an “institute thermal treatment,” which uses 4 megawatts of electricity to power up copper electrodes installed 45 feet below ground, in order to “boil” the chemicals out of groundwater and capture them through steam.
James said he anticipates the physical excavation work to begin by July, while the thermal boiling may sometime in 2025.
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