[CPEO-BIF] Arco station vapors, Seal Beach, California

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents' group wants Arco to dig out contamination

By JAIMEE LYNN FLETCHER
Orange County Register (CA)
March 30, 2010

SEAL BEACH - A group of five residents has submitted a report to the 
Orange County Health Care Agency saying Arco's plan to clean up an old 
gas leak that has contaminated the soil in their neighborhood isn't good 
enough.

The Technical Advisory Committee, which is comprised of five residents 
who volunteered to take part in reviewing Arco's cleanup plan, said they 
want Arco to further study the impacts, excavate the site and beautify 
the neighborhood, among other requests.

Underground storage tanks at the gas station on Pacific Coast Highway 
and 5th Street leaked in 1986 and Arco and the health care agency have 
been working since then to clean it up. Contaminated vapors were 
discovered in January 2009 and Arco found some of the vapors had 
infiltrated the nearby Bridgeport neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ocregister.com/news/arco-241768-residents-neighborhood.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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