This piece focuses on the Feb. 15 Santa Ana City Council meeting, where the City’s General Plan Update will be discussed and possibly approved. Despite residents sharing their concerns about lead in the soil with the City, the General Plan Update did not sufficiently address prevention and mitigation of lead exposures. The Op-Ed calls for the City to lead a process convening multiple stakeholders in an anti-racist approach to understanding and addressing lead in Santa Ana.
Tag: contaminated soil
Posted inInvestigative, Outdoors, Politics & Elections, Seal Beach, Top Stories
Coastal Commission Approves Seal Beach Cleanup
Soil underneath a BP/ARCO station has been contaminated for 25
years.
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Houston, We Have a Solution
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.
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BP/ARCO Will Cover Six-Figure Consultant Cost on Seal Beach Gas Leak
Meanwhile, wary residents and city officials say they are moving closer to an agreement with the oil giant.
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Seal Beach BP/ARCO Gas Station Likely to Be Torn Down
Tearing down the station where leak occurred 25 years ago will make it possible for polluted soil to be dug up and hauled away.
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Seal Beach Residents: ’25 Years is Too Long’
More than two-dozen people demonstrate to force oil giant BP/ARCO to dig out soil at a neighborhood site contaminated by the company’s leaky storage tanks.
