Roseville (Sacramento, Davis, Vernon: homes, neighborhood, maintenance)

[KarineLeBaron]

Hi,

I'm from NY Long Island. I'd like to move to CA for nicer weather.But I read about pollution with rail yard. What effect will it have on me and my family? Does it rain a lot?

[raria]

Originally Posted by KarineLeBaron

Hi,

I'm from NY Long Island. I'd like to move to CA for nicer weather.But I read about pollution with rail yard. What effect will it have on me and my family? Does it rain a lot?

Yes, no, maybe in that order!!!

Come on, seriously, if you want people to help you at least formulate a clear question. What rail yard do you refer to? And how can a rail yard cause pollution. As for raining, just look up climate information at weather.com

[KC6ZLV]

Originally Posted by raria

Yes, no, maybe in that order!!!

Come on, seriously, if you want people to help you at least formulate a clear question. What rail yard do you refer to? And how can a rail yard cause pollution. As for raining, just look up climate information at weather.com

Locomotives use diesel engines. A large railyard has several idling at any given time. They now use "scrubbers" at railyards to filter particulates from diesel emissions to improve the air quality.

http://www.sacbreathe.org/Local%20St...ember%2007.pdf

[raria]

Originally Posted by KC6ZLV

Locomotives use diesel engines. A large railyard has several idling at any given time. They now use "scrubbers" at railyards to filter particulates from diesel emissions to improve the air quality.

http://www.sacbreathe.org/Local%20St...ember%2007.pdf

But there are no homes directly adjacent to those Railyards and none planned.

[wburg]

Davis Yard runs through most of downtown Roseville--most of the properties directly adjacent are commercial or industrial, but there are hundreds of homes within a block or two, or right across Roseville Road from the tracks; the community of Antelope is separated from the yards by Roseville Road and a sound wall. Exhaust from locomotives is something to consider, and you can definitely smell the creosote and diesel exhaust along Roseville Road and Vernon Street in high summer. There are some open dirt areas in the yards area now that used to be yard tracks (when UP took over the railroad they ripped out part of the yard) plus there are all the solvents, fuel dumps, and assorted chemicals involved in the repair and maintenance of diesel-electric locomotives. I'm sure that things are cleaner there now than in the days of steam locomotives, but when I was a kid I'd walk past the yards and see big pools of multicolored chemical soup on the open ground (back when Antelope was still a series of fenced-off lots with DANGER UNEXPLODED BOMBS signs.) Basically the same stuff Sacramento has been dealing with over the multi-year cleanup process in the old SP and WP shops complexes--except Roseville is still an active facility.

I don't know if it's a deal breaker or not in terms of toxicity--do some research. I wouldn't grow a vegetable patch in former Yards soil, but I wouldn't let it stop me from moving into the neighborhood if I liked it.