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# Stick in the mud: Park cleanup to cost $250K
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/stick-in-the-mud-park-cleanup-to-cost-250k/
- Published: 2005-08-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:33:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

*PARK’S DIRTY SOIL*

WILL COST $250K Councilmembers also will consider shelling out almost $243,000 for the cleanup of contaminated soil along an 8-acre plot of land at the Santa Monica Airport. The plot — which City Hall hopes to transform into a park — was found in June to be contaminated.

Though toxins including arsenic, chromium-6 and hydrocarbons were discovered, any contaminated soil will be removed before the park’s opening, according to Voneelya Simmons, associate project manager for the airport park project.

The project’s lowest bidder — Waste Management, Inc., which has worked with the city of Anaheim and the port of Los Angeles on similar projects — was awarded the cleanup contract, though the second-lowest bidder complained, to no avail, that WMI filled out a faulty bid package.

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LAYING THE FOUNDATION: Workers spread freshly-poured cement into the subterranean portion of the former Pioneer Boulangerie Bakery building on Main Street. (Photo: Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 9, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080905.pdf?ref=smdp.com)