[CPEO-BIF] Former Shell Oil storage, Carson, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Carson homes sit over benzene, methane

By Gene Maddaus
Torrance Daily Breeze (CA)
August 28, 2009

Shell Oil Co. has discovered extensive contamination of methane and 
benzene underneath the Carousel housing tract on the southern end of Carson.

The company has begun testing to determine if the methane has seeped 
into homes, which could be hazardous.

Shell operated oil reservoirs in the area from the 1920s to the 1960s, 
before the property was sold to a housing developer, said Shell 
spokeswoman Alison Chassin.

At the time, oil was stored in below-ground reservoirs lined with 
concrete, not the above-ground tanks that are used today.

Some of that oil appears to have seeped into the soil and the 
groundwater, creating the recently discovered contamination.

There are about 275 homes in the Carousel tract. Shell plans to hold a 
public meeting next week to explain the results of the preliminary tests 
and to seek permission to take core samples on private property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_13226477

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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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