Environmental regulators have found explosive levels of methane in a popular Berkeley park. Regulators and the city are sparring over the source of the gas and what to do about it.
Brimming with wildlife and offering panoramic views of San Francisco Bay, César Chávez Park welcomes visitors who might never suspect this stretch of shoreline was built atop a municipal landfill. But beneath the sprawling grasslands and charming hiking trails, decomposing waste continues to generate methane gas. That's why the city of Berkeley operates an underground system that collects this flammable gas and torches it at a large mechanical flare near the center of the park.
And Harquail couldn't find five of the landfill's 42 wells, which may have been buried by construction or groundskeeping. He told the inspectors he has occasionally used a pickax to try to unearth them. 'He told me it's like looking for a needle in a haystack,' Leung said at an air district meeting in February. 'He doesn't know where they are.' Harquail did not respond to requests for comment.
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