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.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 9, 2005. Read the original PDF.