Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton Landfill Could Cost Millions to Cleanup

Date: January 17, 2007

Source: News Room

The Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton may have to spend millions to fix a landfill near the center of the base which threatens surrounding water supplies and has been called the greatest engineering failure of its kind in San Diego California history. The Las Pulgas landfill had been expanded as recently as 1999, but shoddy construction leading to liner failures forced officials to close the site in 2003 and may cost close to $30 million to address the many environmental problems surrounding the site. This is in addition to $2.3 million already spent to contain hundreds of thousands of gallons of hazardous waste, including radioactive material and heavy metals leaking from ruptures in the site's liners.

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