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Grant Pays to Clear Rubble/Renovate Candlestick Point05-29-09 | News

Grant Pays to Clear Rubble/Renovate Candlestick Point




Interior areas and the shoreline bluff at the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area in South San Francisco had became a dumping ground.
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A $1.2 million grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board has footed the bill to remove tons of construction rubble, trash and other hazards dumped over the years along the shoreline bluff of Candlestick Point State Recreation Area.

The wetlands here, like many areas along San Francisco Bay, became landfill. While landfills in the Bay Area often became residential developments, despite the instability of the land in this very active earthquake zone, the land here was intended as a Navy shipyard during WWII. That didn?EUR??,,????'?????<

Interior areas and the shoreline bluff became the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area.

Unfortunately, it also became a dumping ground.

The grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board has afforded not only removal of debris, but refurbishment of trails.

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