[CPEO-BIF] Indalex site, Stanislaus County, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stanislaus County to clear Indalex site

By Garth Stapley
Modesto Bee (CA)
December 12, 2011

Public embarrassment over Indalex could ease in the next day or so as  
contractors armed with a court order begin clearing what's left of a  
former aluminum plant picked apart by scavengers.

Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge William Mayhew on Friday  
signed an abatement warrant giving county officials cover to hire  
cleanup crews despite not having permission from the property owner,  
because there is none.

"We're going to go clean it up," said Kirk Ford, the county's  
planning director and chief building official.

Court documents supporting the order, obtained Monday, reveal another  
nasty secret: a cancer-causing toxin was detected in groundwater  
under the plant north of Modesto shortly before it closed in July 2008.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.modbee.com/2011/12/12/1984950/modesto-indalex-site-to-be- 
cleared.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>
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