Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy Craig Brian
Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy Craig Brian Stringfellow Acid Pits tells the story of one of the most toxic places in the United States, and of an epic legal battle waged to clean…
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Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy Craig Brian
Stringfellow Acid Pits tells the story of one of the most toxic places in the United States, and of an epic legal battle waged to clean up the site and hold those responsible accountable. Officials claimed it was a natural waste disposal site because of the impermeable rocks that underlay the surface. In 1955, California officials approached rock quarry owner James Stringfellow about using his land in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, as a hazardous dump site.
Over 33 million gallons of industrial chemicals from more than a dozen of the nation's most prominent companies poured into the site's unlined ponds. They were gravely mistaken. In the 1960s and 1970s, heavy rains forced surges of chemical-laden water into Pyrite Creek and the nearby town of Glen Avon.
Children played in the froth, making fake beards with the chemical foam. The liquid waste contaminated the