San Diego Bay cleanup proposal drags on

One of the largest environmental cleanup projects in county history is languishing, with no clear start date for work that was proposed in 2005. Details on how to handle contaminated sediment in San Diego Bay — initially pegged at $96 million — remain buried in secret mediation talks. Those negotiations have dragged on for an unexpected 16 months, and that’s on top of the three years it took for regional water regulators to prepare documents associated with the case. The main points of contention include defining the cleanup area, determining the acceptable level of pollutants and forming ways to monitor progress. A schedule issued Thursday by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board set Oct. 30 as the deadline for a revised cleanup proposal to be made public. Read the entire Union Tribune article here.