[CPEO-BIF] "Noll Inc. wants the regional water board to take accountability for wrongfully accusing it of contaminating groundwater, " San Luis Obispo, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Noll Inc. wants the regional water board to take accountability for wrongfully accusing it of contaminating groundwater 

BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
New Times San Luis Obispo (CA)
November 2, 2023

In the last four years, the Nolls have spent almost half a million dollars on consultants, investigatory reports, water bottles and filtration systems, well testing, and more.

Starting on July 31, 2019, the family lived under constant threat from the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: a fine of $5,000 a day for not complying with a cleanup and abatement order for pollution that the Nolls maintained from the beginning wasn't their fault.

Janice and John Noll, whose father founded Noll Inc. on Thread Lane near the San Luis Obispo airport in the early 1960s, did the groundwork they thought they needed to do to prove their company wasn't responsible for seeping TCE (trichloroethylene), a carcinogen, into the water table. Their father operated his machine shop with the utmost respect for the environment, a value that he passed down to his children. John, who now operates Noll Inc., said his machine shop has never used TCE.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newtimesslo.com/news/noll-inc-wants-the-regional-water-board-to-take-accountability-for-wrongfully-accusing-it-of-contaminating-groundwater-14493996

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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
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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