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State Water Board analysis: roughly one-third of cleanup sites are in the most burdened California tracts
Summary
Steve McMasters of the State Water Resources Control Board presented a statewide analysis using CalEnviroScreen showing approximately 60,000 historic and existing cleanup sites, with about 18,000 in tracts scoring 75% or higher; he flagged disparities in open vs. closed site distributions across demographic groups and historic redlining areas.
Steve McMasters, a supervising engineering geologist with the State Water Resources Control Board, presented a statewide analysis of waterboard cleanup programs and their distribution relative to CalEnviroScreen burden scores.
McMasters said the waterboards’ geotracker dataset includes roughly 60,000 historic and existing cleanup sites and that about one-third—approximately 18,000 sites—fall inside census tracts with CalEnviroScreen scores…
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