Word: stringfellow
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Located some 50 miles east of Los Angeles, the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits are among the worst repositories of toxic waste in the U.S. Before the site was finally shut down in 1972, it was filled with nearly 34 million gal. of hydrochloric, sulfuric and phosphoric acids, chloroform, trichloroethylene and other poisonous manufacturing byproducts. Although California and federal authorities have spent $7 million to contain the damage, the lethal chemicals are still working their way into the ground water, threatening area residents and farms...
Back in Washington, the Justice Department's Division of Land and Natural Resources revealed plans to sue some of the more than 200 companies responsible for dumping hazardous wastes from 1955 to 1972 at the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif. The aim: to recover cleanup costs, now calculated to run as high as $40 million...
...Stringfellow site has been at the center of charges, under investigation by the FBI and congressional subcommittees, that former EPA Administrator Anne Burford last year withheld federal cleanup funds from California for political reasons. Newly appointed EPA Head William Ruckelshaus is doing his own kind of tidying up: his aides are busy screening candidates for top EPA jobs, almost all of which are now vacant...
...another last week in their sometimes overzealous efforts to keep "Sewergate" sizzling. Democrats culled EPA documents, looking for a trail of evidence that would lead to the White House. On Thursday the White House, which had long insisted that its files contained no internal reports on the notorious Stringfellow toxic dump in California, admitted that it did have two EPA reports confirming that Burford prepared to announce a grant to clean up Stringfellow last year but changed her mind at the last minute. There have been charges that the Administration delayed the cleanup in an effort to hurt the Senate...
Senators at Lavelle's confirmation hearing were worried about her ties to Aerojet-one of more than 100 companies negotiating with the EPA over dumping in Stringfellow-and made her promise to stay out of cases involving the firm. Nevertheless, Lavelle did not formally disqualify herself from the Stringfellow case until June 18, and informally kept her hand in after that, according to agency insiders...