[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic waste still a problem for El Cajon [CA] neighborhoods"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic waste still a problem for El Cajon neighborhoods

By Albert Fulcher 
Californian (East San Diego County)
February 18, 2020

From 1963 to 1985, aerospace manufacturing company Senior Aerospace Ketema (formerly Am­etek) in El Cajon dumped thousands of pounds of a chemical degreaser into a shallow redwood-lined pit that sat on its property.

This resulted in a toxic groundwater plume of trichloroethylene, which travels through the soil by a process called soil vapor intrusion into the three large mobile home parks surrounding the facility - Greenfield, Starlight and Villa Cajon - as well as Magnolia Elementary School.

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On Feb. 1, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) held a community meeting along with The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) at Magnolia Elemen­tary to address the ongoing public threat to residents in the area. The contaminated groundwater runs approxi­mately one mile, from Mag­nolia Elementary to Gillespie Field. With about 80 people at the meeting, residents ex­pressed many concerns about their health, their property value and who to contact for any issue they might have.

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For the entire article, see
https://eccalifornian.com/toxic-waste-still-a-problem-for-el-cajon-neighborhoods/

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





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