Great Park of Empty Homes?

• I believe I heard something at one point about moving the OC Fairgrounds there, too. There was just a story this weekend about vendors getting pushed out of their (free) overnight campgrounds at the fairgrounds because the Fair needed the space.

• [...] A three mile long plume of TCE contamination stretches out from El Toro and into the groundwater under the Woodbridge section of Irvine. The Irvine Ranch Water District has been engaged in a long term effort to clean up the TCE pollution in its aquifer, and despite the fact that some of samples back in 1999 showed levels of 140 ppb, has always maintained that the contamination is not a serious problem for the public. Likewise, the Department of Defense maintains that it has the El Toro site pollution under control, and it will in no way interfere with the creation of the Great Park, or all those homes that are to be built at the former air station (though the DoD's reputation for honesty in this area is not entirely unblemished). Of course, all this was before the latest report. [...]

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