Water regulators tell Oakland to remove Ghostship fire debris from bayside dump

Regional clean-water regulators have told Oakland officials to remove charred debris from December’s Ghost Ship fire that the city dumped near San Leandro Bay and haul it to a landfill. That decision came without testing the material at the dump site, but regulators want the city to clean up the debris quickly and don’t plan on taking regulatory action, Dale Bower, of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board Watershed Division, said Thursday.