PROJECT LOCATION
Cesar Chavez Park is located on the north portion of the Berkeley Marina. The proposed area for the public restroom is along the north side of Spinnaker Way where currently only portable toilets are available to the public.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
This is a Measure T1 Phase 2 project.
In 2025, the Regional Water Quality Control Board (“Water Board”) issued a regulatory compliance letter to the City of Berkeley indicating that industrial waste materials containing certain radionuclides may have been disposed at the landfill in the 1980s underneath what became Cesar Chavez Park. The letter required the City to initiate a comprehensive work plan of environmental testing and reporting. For any excavation work of one foot or deeper below the surface, the work plan requires the use of worker safety equipment and procedures that dramatically increases the cost of excavation projects far beyond any existing project funding. As a result, the Cesar Chavez Park Restroom Project is currently on-hold until the City can obtain funds to implement the project at a feasible location to serve Cesar Chavez Park.
Further details and reports about the City’s environmental testing work at the former landfill can be found at the following City website: Cesar Chavez Park Closed Landfill Improvement Project.
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Currently only portable toilets are available to the public on Spinnaker Way at the Berkeley Marina
Exeloo Self Cleaning Restroom installed at Mia’s Dream All Abilities Playground in Hayward, California
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