From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Former Shell Oil storage, Carson, California |
Carson homes sit over benzene, methane By Gene Maddaus Torrance Daily Breeze (CA) August 28, 2009Shell 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. ... For the entire article, see http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_13226477 -- 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 | |
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