[CPEO-MEF] San Gabriel Valley (CA) Superfund settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U.S. EPA, state, settle for $1.7 million in San Gabriel Valley clean up 
costs

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 9
June 21, 2007


Cleanup of major drinking water source expected to run over $200 million

(Los Angeles, Calif. -- 06/21/07) The U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency has settled with a private company, its owners, and several 
federal agencies for $1,695 million in cleanup costs at the San Gabriel 
Valley Area 2 Superfund Site near Los Angeles.

The settling parties are: Azusa Pipe and Tube Bending Corp., Frederick 
Tressel, Ronald Tressel, the Trustees of the Tressel Family Trust, the 
General Services Administration, Department of the Army, Department of 
Defense, Department of the Navy, Department of the Air Force, and U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers.

“Today’s settlement demonstrates the EPA’s commitment to make 
potentially responsible parties pay their fair share," said Keith 
Takata, director of the EPA’s Superfund Division for the Pacific 
Southwest Region. “The EPA will continue to oversee cleanup work at this 
and the other San Gabriel Valley Superfund sites to protect and restore 
the San Gabriel Basin as a vital source of drinking water for Southern 
California.”


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/2f43f22ab54195e1852573010078009c?OpenDocument

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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