Seal Beach, Orange County’s northernmost beach town and home to Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, has about 24,000 residents. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget and the beach, parking and short-term rentals.
After more than 25 years, pollution problem from leaky
underground tanks could be gone by next summer, company says.
Orange County health officials appear to end 25 years of debate over how to clean up a leak under a Seal Beach gas station.
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Seal Beach city manager travels to BP headquarters in Houston and returns confident that the contaminated soil from a gas station leak will at long last be removed.
Brothers work to save family enterprise while residents continue their push to have the station torn down and contaminated soil removed.
Letter from city to county health agency urges excavation to end 25-year problem with gasoline leak.
Meanwhile, wary residents and city officials say they are moving closer to an agreement with the oil giant.
Tearing down the station where leak occurred 25 years ago will make it possible for polluted soil to be dug up and hauled away.
For the first time during a 25-year clean-up effort, the company
says excavation of contaminated soil under a gas station is an
option. Residents say they are cautiously optimistic.
Twenty-five years after a gasoline leak at a station on Pacific Coast Highway, the county and the city are still trying to get BP/ARCO to fix the problem, records show.
Contaminated soil around former gas station had to be removed for sewer construction.This is separate from another Seal Beach location that BP/ARCO contaminated.
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