[CPEO-BIF] "Carson [California] to declare emergency stemming from Carousel tract contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Carson to declare emergency stemming from Carousel tract contamination

By Sandy Mazza
Torrance Daily Breeze (CA)
July 19, 2013

Carson is on the verge of declaring a local emergency to spur more  
rapid cleanup of its environmentally contaminated Carousel housing  
tract, which sits on a former oil tank farm that left untold amounts  
of petroleum just a few feet below the neighborhood's 285 homes.

The city filed a claim for damages this week in Los Angeles Superior  
Court, alleging that Shell Oil Co. is trespassing and creating a  
public nuisance that is causing injury. On Thursday night, council  
members told staff to prepare an emergency resolution seeking  
immediate remediation of the problem.

"Five years is long enough," Councilman Mike Gipson said. "The people  
of Carousel tract need some answers now. When will this be resolved?  
And how? No one is answering that. Everyone is passing the buck while  
people's lives are hanging in the balance. It's not fair."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_23695206/carson-declare-emergency- 
stemming-from-carousel-tract-contamination


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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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