Environmental Issues
The Chevron Richmond Refinery is about one mile west across Garrard Boulevard, the BNSF railway Intermodal switching and loading yard and the Richmond Parkway. An accident at the refinery on January 15, 2007, revealed defects in the community notification system, and several members of the community were affected by fumes. Richmond City Councilman Tom Butt has made sure that this will not happen again.
Prevailing winds are from the southwest, off San Francisco bay, but air quality suffers due to nearby commercial activity.
Currently there is much community environmental activism concerning a plan by Chevron to add facilities to process heavier grades of crude oil with more sulfur content (sour crude).
Read more about this topic: Atchison Village, Richmond, California
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