2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] West Santa Rosa, California, litigation
 
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

--


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>
http://www.cpeo.org


_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-BIF] Reminder: Brownfields 2009 hotel scholarships
Next by Date: [CPEO-BIF] Milford Cleaning Village, Milford, Connecticut
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] Reminder: Brownfields 2009 hotel scholarships
Next by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] Milford Cleaning Village, Milford, Connecticut

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index