Berkeley to close the Cesar Chavez Park as the drone tests for methane

The Cesar Chave Park will be completely closed for two days this week, since Berkeley flies a drone over the park twisted by the landfill to test whether toxic gas is entering the air.

The Waterfront Park will be closed on Tuesday, May 20, and Wednesday, May 21st. According to the city, other parts of the Berkeley Marina will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday for “not more than 30 minutes”.

The tests are prescribed by the Air District in Bay Area, who previously claimed that Berkeley has mistreated Methan at the old landfill, which is buried under the Cesar Chavez Park, and enables it to penetrate the atmosphere. The city agreed to pay fines of 130,000 US dollars for the violations in April 2024.

Ralph Borrmann, a spokesman for the Air District, said the drone survey was a prerequisite for a February 2024 deposit order, which asks the city to prove that landfill gas does not expire from the Berkeley landfill and do not migrate into the surrounding areas.

Martin Nicolaus, a retirement lawyer who voluntarily reports as CEO of the Cesar Chave Park Conservancy, wrote in a blog post Sunday that the SCS engineering das company Berkeley, with which the landfill expectation has long been used for years, has to be tested for possible methane leaks without a Snowfer device with an employed one Roll pattern with a “snowfer devices) has been completed on a 100-foot degree-roller devices on a 100-foot degree device.

A scan with this method was completed in April and found that metha bridges were secure, Nicolaus wrote, although Berkeleyside was unable to check independently.

The city with paper notices over the closures this week on A-Frames around the Berkeley-Marina, but in the late Monday afternoon it had not drawn the residents in her newsletters. In the message, “public security” is given as the reason for the closure.

The city's offices were closed on Monday for Malcolm X's birthday, and the city's spokesman did not immediately respond to Berkeleyside's inquiries to comment on this story. Scott Ferris, the city's park director, said questions about the landfill should be addressed to the city's public work department or the city's spokesman.

Claudia Kawczynska, a frequent park visitor and deputy chairman of the city and Waterfront Commission of the city, said she was created a few days ago. “You didn't notice much for us,” she said, noticing that she didn't speak on behalf of the Commission.

The affected areas for the Rolling closures on Wednesday and Thursday include spinnaker way (and the circular gymnasium on the west end), the Doubletree Hotel and the parking spaces, the dry boat storage area, the parking spaces for Docks D and E, the public boat start and the parking lot, the Berkeley Marine Center, the Kite -Shop and the Model Sailing School and Clubs.

Berkeley briefly closed Cesar Chavez Park last autumn when UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering flew with a drone to measure the radiation levels in the park.

The tests prescribed by the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board, according to which archive documents were created, showed that a chemical company in the 1960s and 1970s may have dumped £ 11,100 toxic industrial waste, and gave normal radiation levels on the park of the park.