[CPEO-BIF] Electro-Forming site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Richmond: Hazardous waste site to be cleaned up; owner goes to jail

By Karina Ioffee 
Contra Costa Times (CA)
November 9, 2015

RICHMOND -- A former metal-plating company, shut down earlier this year after a string of environmental violations, will finally be cleaned up, and its owner is headed to jail, the Department of Toxic Substances Control said Monday.

Last March, the state agency ordered Marion Patingler, owner of Electro-Forming, Co., to clean up highly flammable materials stored at her company, including cyanide, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, or face jail time. According to the agency, the facility illegally treated, stored and disposed of plating waste for several years, allowing dangerous waste to gather under the floor and creating serious safety risks, according to the complaint.

The company also failed to label drums, provide employee training, operate the facility in a manner meant to prevent a release and obtain a valid hazardous waste transporters registration, according to a complaint filed by the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office last year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_29094106/richmond-hazardous-waste-site-be-cleaned-up-owner

See also http://richmondstandard.com/2015/11/hazardous-waste-finally-removed-from-iron-triangle-business/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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