Press Enterprise: Jurupa Valley demands removal of lead-laced soil at Stringfellow acid pits
"Jurupa Valley officials are insisting that a state agency remove a half dozen containers of lead-contaminated soil they say are stored in violation of state law on a parking lot at the Stringfellow acid pits, one of Southern California’s most notorious toxic waste dumps.
..... On Wednesday, June 22, state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, and Assembly Member Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, sent a letter in support of the city’s request to California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Jared Blumenfeld. The Department of Toxic Substances Control is a division of Cal EPA.
Cervantes and Roth wrote that, in the 1970s residents “were traumatized by the disclosure that between 1956 and 1972 more than 33 million gallons of toxic industrial waste had been deposited into an old rock quarry” by industrial manufacturers and others at the direction of a state water-quality board.
“And, now it appears that we are once again faced with the same situation, state sanctioned dumping of contaminated material at Stringfellow, but this time by the manager of the clean-up effort — DTSC,” they wrote, calling the storage “inexcusable and outrageous.” "