[CPEO-BIF] Lorentz Barrel and Drum Superfund cleanup, San Jose, California

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New cleanup proposed for old San Jose Superfund site near San Jose State
Lorentz Barrel and Drum operated from 1947 to 1987, leaving a legacy of chemical pollution


By PAUL ROGERS 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
February 16, 2026 

Most people don’t pay much attention to the ordinary-looking parking lot at the corner of South 10th Street and East Alma Avenue just south of downtown San Jose.

There are plenty of bigger draws nearby: San Jose State University’s football stadium, the San Jose Giants’ ballpark, Happy Hollow Zoo and Sharks Ice at San Jose, a popular ice rink where the San Jose Sharks practice.

But the 5-acre, asphalt-covered lot is home to one of Silicon Valley’s longest-running environmental cleanups — a former business where workers scrubbed and recycled more than 2 million industrial steel drums between 1947 and 1987, often dumping pesticides, solvents, acids and other chemicals into the ground and storm drains.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/13/new-cleanup-proposed-for-old-san-jose-superfund-site-near-san-jose-state/

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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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