MONTEREY PARK : Navy to Pay $1 Million for Toxic Dump Cleanup
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Federal environmental officials in San Francisco announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy has agreed to pay more than $1 million to help finance the cleanup of lingering contamination in at one of the nation’s worst hazardous-waste dump sites.
For several years, until environmental and health officials ordered the 190-acre Monterey Park landfill closed in 1984, the Long Beach Naval Facility sent waste to the dump, now designated as a federal Superfund site.
The money will resolve the Navy’s liability in the site’s cleanup and represents a fraction of the $500 million to $800 million estimated to be required to remedy the problem in coming decades. Close to 190 firms that also disposed of waste at the site have committed $200 million toward the cleanup.
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