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Panelists urge earlier community engagement, cross-agency partnerships and cleanup over building-by-building mitigation
Summary
Representatives from developers, consultants, community groups and academics at CalEPA’s workshop emphasized building relationships with communities, coordinating local government and regulators, and prioritizing remediation (where feasible) as a durable form of mitigation for vapor-intrusion risks.
A multi-stakeholder panel at the CalEPA vapor-intrusion workshop highlighted common themes: engage communities earlier and in plain language, strengthen local government capacity to coordinate with regulators, and consider remediation as an area-wide mitigation strategy rather than relying solely on building-by-building vapor-intrusion mitigation systems. Maricela Fuller (Innovative Housing Opportunities) and Renee Funston (Link Housing) described the Lincoln Beach affordable-housing project and asked for clearer mitigation templates and cost guidance to help budgeting and financing. “We had to shift funds…including taking money…
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