California Dog Park Opens

“The Boneyard,” a dog-friendly public park built over a former oil pumping site in Culver City, California, opened recently. The site was cleaned at a cost of $290,000.
In 2003, the U.S. EPA’s brownfield program awarded Culver City a $250,000 grant to perform environmental investigation and cleanup of oil-contaminated soil.

During the cleanup, managed by Culver City’s public works department, 1,200 tons of oil-contaminated soil was removed and treated, and 655 feet of abandoned cast iron oil pipeline was removed and recycled. Clean, fresh soil taken from nearby Benedict Canyon was used to backfill the areas where the oil-contaminated soil had been removed.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department Health and Hazardous Material Division-Site Mitigation Unit performed oversight of investigation and cleanup activities at the site.
The nearly one-acre site is Culver City’s first off-leash dog park. It was constructed using $120,000 raised by The Friends of Culver City Dog Park, a non-profit group of Culver City residents. BFN