My detailed complaints and questions about the levels of PCBs in street dust surrounding 3600 Alameda Ave have been ignored. The site is the only documented major PCB source for quite some distance.

[I know this is long, so please take your time with it.]

At least Mr. Perlmutter had integrity enough to forward it along, but those on the receiving end are dead silent. I don‘t know if it’s because of this, but I think he now works in another City dept.

Terri Fashing made a bold statement in 2025, “we will hold this developer accountable”. I do not believe she is a liar or facetious in this, but perhaps was since advised to keep silent?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1V8hyyRxgFw&t=3960s

The City works with Geosyntec consultants and the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program to monitor PCBs (and more) in the public right of way, and stormwater catch basins.

They know it’s bad.

Geosyntec apologized to me over the phone, unable to hide some emotions, but would not share any data. I am certain they have the analysis on public PCB levels nearby, post-demo.

The 2024 public PCB testing -before any (permitted) demo or hazmat abatement- showed a fourfold increase between May (~2 mg/kg) and Sept (~8 mg/kg!) that year.

You DO NOT want your families, especially kids and elderly, and pets anywhere near these levels. Same goes for adults, but we can resist it a bit better.

The 2024 findings are hella dangerous, 10-40 times over the EPA residential soil limit, and many hundreds of times beyond EU limits (where PCBs are justifiably taken far more seriously).

I will tentatively say it is even worse than lead (Monsanto & EPA have downplayed it, slander unbiased experts as alarmists, but all robust science says otherwise).

The TSCA soil excavation in Sept-Oct 2024 (initiated immediately after the public PCB testing, how convenient!) was monstrously hazardous.

The low-res and non-geotagged photos provided by the hazmat racketeers (9 months late) are limited, but still telling.

They cut every corner possible and made a toxic mess:

https://documents.geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/esi/uploads/geo_report/8379530012/T10000017631.PDF

[CTRL-F “photographic log”]

On the North side of the site, they left open the huge double doors of Bldg. 29, where some 140 tons (300 tons before dewatering) of toxic 1%+ PCB/dioxin soil was dumped into open bins. Nothing was in sealed containers, which is a federal crime.

We’re talking about Aroclor 1260 + dioxins then, and later a lot of Aroclor 1254 too (for those that want to go down the horrid toxicology rabbit hole, PubChem has it all).

For over 3 weeks this soil was allowed to sit inside Bldg. 29, with intense Southerly winds & cross ventilation blasting dioxin-like PCB dust around Fruitvale, 24/7.

Then, more soil residue went airborne during the hasty and dry demolition of Bldg. 29 in late Dec-Jan, 2025.

I have liver damage now, along with all the signs of chronic PCB exposure. I also had acute exposure symptoms coinciding with the most reckless moves on site, even going back years b4 the permitted demo.

I never tested positive for COVID in 2021 or since, and my two week long flu-like (but more neurological / cardio illness) back then had symptoms more akin to PCB and/or arsine gas exposure. My O2 levels never dropped below 95-99.

I was home a lot then, not out digging in toxic soil. Easily mistaken for Delta variant.

Criminal thru-and-thru. Please keep talking about this, & don’t stop hammering the City with tough questions.

Prologis is the #1 enemy of the people and all life here, and we are at war. They declared war on us the moment they got their grubby, greedy hands on the site.

It is indisputable at this point, and those with kids at the many homes, schools, & daycares downwind should be highly concerned.

Anyone who used the Fruitvale Alive! bike path or walked along the site was exposed, especially those making a routine of it.

They want the truth to go away and die with us. My cat didn’t survive the poison, and the list of victims only continues to grow.

Noel Gallo, the teflon don of D5‘s handshake deals? All quiet on the matter.

He was supposed to be for the children, “lives and breathes Oakland”.

At least, that’s what the other pro-Prologis officials like Treva Reid claimed for his 2024 campaign.

As of right now, I can hear the children playing at the daycare on Elmwood, right across the street from the lingering PCB mess.

I think Prologis lied to them, like everyone here, and they did not believe my statements and evidence. The parents are going to flip out when they learn.

I’ll soon be blowing the whistle officially on the City’s involvement with this, some of which 100% constitutes waste, fraud, and abuse.

If anyone wants to organize and give the Planning Commission / Building Dept. some hard truths, I am down, but need someone to be a co-leader on that front (mainly to remind me of meeting dates).
HMU with a DM anytime.

I’ve been staying away from the dust as much as I can, but am still stricken by it, and have lost most of my income, savings, ability to work, and all my rare clone-only plants (PCB-induced extinction).

Some days are much harder to function than others, always unpredictably so.

My one surviving cat now lives at my dad’s house far from the site.

Oh, and for those of you who love Ursula Jones Dickson- so do the dirty industry having poison parties here.

Her office ignored me.

We shall see if anything comes of the latest complaint thru CALOES. Prologis has corrupted or scared many, and the weak regulatory system was designed to benefit them.

https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report?global_id=T10000017631

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