[CPEO-BIF] West Santa Rosa, California, litigation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

West Santa Rosa pollution case goes to trial

By BOB NORBERG
SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT (CA)
June 2, 2009

Several Santa Rosa residents faced off in court Tuesday against Union 
Pacific Railroad and JDS Uniphase, companies they contend tainted their 
wells with potentially cancer-causing chemicals.

"The evidence will show how their business practices contaminated the 
environment, how it contaminated the groundwater and how it entered the 
defendants’ wells," attorney Joseph Gonzalez of Westlake Village said in 
opening statements in a civil trial in Sonoma County Superior Court.

Gonzalez blamed at least part of the pollution to land owned by Union 
Pacific on Frances Avenue and to chemical barrels from Optical Coating 
Laboratories, Inc., found at that property and an adjacent parcel.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090602/ARTICLES/906029907?Title=West-Santa-Rosa-pollution-case-goes-to-trial

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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