Recycled soil at Cabazon site found not to pose serious health threat
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 00:00
in Earth & Climate
However, California regulators find that the operator did not meet state hazardous waste standards 'in a number of significant areas.' Odors at the site had been blamed for sickening children and teachers at a nearby school.State regulators found inadequate environmental safeguards at a Coachella Valley soil recycling company blamed for noxious odors that sickened children at a nearby school but said the mountains of contaminated soil do not pose a serious health threat.
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