[CPEO-BIF] Omega Chemical settlement, Whittier, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Department of Justice
April 20, 2016

Department of Justice and EPA Announce $78 Million Superfund Settlement to Clean Up Groundwater Contamination at Southern California Superfund Site 

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that a group of 66 companies have agreed to clean up contaminated groundwater at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Whittier, California.  The settlement requires the companies to spend an estimated $70 million to install wells and operate a groundwater treatment system.  In addition, the parties will reimburse EPA $8 million and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control $70,000 toward costs incurred in those agencies’ past cleanup actions at the site.  

“We are pleased that the settling parties have come forward to do the work of cleaning up the groundwater contamination to which they and others contributed,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.  “This settlement makes excellent progress in cleaning up the Omega site and will also put additional systems in place to monitor and evaluate the level of contamination in order to guide future work.”

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For the entire release, see
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-and-epa-announce-78-million-superfund-settlement-clean-groundwater

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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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