You can contrast this story with another Fairchild Superfund site, this time in south San Jose on Bernal. http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/ViewByE

You can contrast this story with another Fairchild Superfund site, this time in south San Jose on Bernal. http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/ViewByEPAID/CAD097012298 http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/ViewByEPAID/CA... I grew up a few miles from here, close enough that my parents were worried about the contamination. Thankfully the well supplying our neighborhood wasn't contaminated. For years, I'd always wondered what the giant concrete sarcophagus was whenever we'd drive out to the freeway, but it never occurred to me to look it up. Only when visiting the Bay Area in the early 2000s and finding it demolished and replaced with a freaking strip mall did I look things up and realize both what a horrible thing it was (birth defects and all) and how lucky we got that this site was clean enough to build on again.