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...dump may indeed be part of the solution. The federal Superfund pays Casmalia Resources to take wastes collected in the cleanup of the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits near Los Angeles. But even this up-to-date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire...
...direction of the school board, McCalip, who has a law degree, asked the county attorney to seek an injunction against the waste dump. "The county counsel told me that I wasn't playing ball, that I had teed off all the county officials. He said, 'Hey, Ken, this isn't the way we do it in Santa Barbara County.' " There was little sympathy from county officials who investigated. "The wind kicks up," McCalip explains, "and the fumes are gone. They think you're crazy." Out-of-town acquaintances were dubious...
...woman who used to teach here with me was ! in perfect health when she came, and she died of leukemia two years later." Not until last month, after well-to-do neighborhoods in Santa Maria got a strong chemical whiff one day, did the county government finally admit the dump was a problem. People in Casmalia are sure they have the official reluctance figured: revenues from the dump this year will be $40 million, with the county taking 10% off the top. "Money talks," says Phyllis Vaniter...
...percolate through the ground into his cattle's drinking water. "If that stuff ever gets into the water, we're through." As for the odor, it burns his sinuses and gives him headaches. "If you see a lot of trucks come in," says Tompkins, who lives close to the dump entrance, "you can pretty well bet there'll be a smell...
...deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...