As the council prepared to go into a closed session, which now isn't going to happen, about the Los Cerritos Wetlands deal, Mayor Bob Foster announced that he plans to move up a scheduled presentation by the Environmental Protection Agency to early in the meeting. Foster said the presentation, which will address contaminants that have been found in the soil on the property that the city hopes to acquire and restore as wetlands, will happen after the public hearings at the beginning of the meeting. The item was listed on the agenda as No. 29, which would have happened late in the meeting, probably after 8 p.m. If moved up, the coucil will probably hear the EPA report by 6 p.m.
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Who in their right mind would start a wetland preserve or bank and not do a hazmat study first to determine the toxic issue if any. None of the Federal or State Agencies would look at this site if it was contaminated.
Just wonder how it is done in S. Cal.
Nathan Botwinik
The Wetland Guy