Central County : Two Firms Ordered to Clean Up Ground Water
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The state Regional Water Quality Control Board has ordered two companies Friday to clean up contaminated ground water at their properties.
The action against Kayo Oil Company, which owns a service station at 5002 Warner Ave. in Huntington Beach, came more than one year after fuel was found seeping into the ground from a leak in the station’s premium unleaded gasoline pipelines.
Board members ordered Kayo Oil to start the cleanup by April 1 and to submit a work plan for monitoring the underground migration of pollutants by April 15.
The panel also took similar action against Xerox Corp., which owns two adjacent buildings at 18691 Jamboree Blvd. and 18582 Teller Ave. in Irvine. The order came two years after solvents in areas near the former equipment cleaning booths were discovered leaking into the ground.
The board ordered Xerox to start a vapor extraction and ground water cleanup by May 15.
According to water board officials, enforcement actions were delayed for both companies while they conducted their own studies and took some corrective measures of their own.
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