[CPEO-BIF] Tracking down the TCE source in the Buckley Road area of San Luis Obispo, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The search for contamination source continues with Buckley Road residents footing the bill

By Chris McGuinness
New Times San Luis Obispo (CA)
July 13, 2017

In real life, things are often messier than a CSI episode purports them to be, and mysteries of all kinds can drag out for months or years without a satisfying resolution.

That appears to be case for tracking down just who is responsible for the toxic solvent found in several domestic water wells in the Buckley Road area of San Luis Obispo. It's been more than eighteen months since water quality officials discovered levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, that exceeded the EPA's drinking water standards in the groundwater of 13 domestic wells in the area. Despite environmental testing on multiple properties, including the SLO County Regional Airport, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board has yet to find the source of that contamination. And the cost of the investigation is mounting, both for the water board and some of the residents whose properties are suspected of being the culprit.

Alan Strasbaugh owns a commercial property located at 825 Buckley Road. In November 2016, after testing showed that the airport was not the source of the TCE groundwater contamination, the water board turned its focus to three nearby properties, including Strasbaugh's, which had been singled out for potential TCE-related issues as far back as 2013. The property owners were required to pay for sampling and testing to determine if they were the source of the TCE.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/the-search-for-contamination-source-continues-with-buckley-road-residents-footing-the-bill/Content?oid=3152924

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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