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State Agrees to Pay $114 Mil for Toxic Cleanup

LOS ANGELES-California will reimburse the US EPA for cost of cleaning Riverside's Stringfellow waste dump and Santa Barbara's Casmalia Resources Facility. Acid from Stringfellow contaminated water supply, leading some to call it the 'Love Canal of the West.'

By David W. Myers | Updated on May 01, 2001

LOS ANGELES-California officials have agreed to pay a combined $114.5 million for the cleanup of two of the state’s most notorious toxic waste dumps, hoping to end a series of lawsuits and counter suits that have spread across three decades.

The two sites are the Stringfellow acid pits near Riverside, about 90 miles east of Downtown LA, and the Casmalia Resources Facility in Santa Barbara County, about 100 miles to the north. The two dumps are “California’s highest-priority cleanup sites,” Gov. Gray Davis said in announcing the settlement.

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