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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Ventura County Star Stories: Halaco</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/news/halaco/?partner=RSS</link><atom:link href="http://venturacountystar.com/news/news/halaco/?partner=RSS" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><description>Ventura County Star Stories: Halaco</description><language>en-us</language><category>news/halaco</category><item><title>Trespassers seen at Halaco Superfund site
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/09/trespassers-seen-at-halaco-superfund-site/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[The locked gates, chain link fence, and the big signs warning of the danger of radiation and heavy metals have not been enough to deter trespassers from slipping into the Halaco Superfund site near Ormond Beach.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/09/trespassers-seen-at-halaco-superfund-site/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>EPA to hold 2 meetings on Halaco
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/oct/16/epa-to-hold-2-meetings-on-halaco/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Following up on a well attended town hall style meeting in Oxnard last month, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency will give two more presentations this week concerning the cleanup at the Halaco Superfund hazardous waste site near Ormond Beach.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/oct/16/epa-to-hold-2-meetings-on-halaco/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>Fliers warn of Halaco dangers 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jul/03/fliers-warn-of-halaco-dangers/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[For the past six months, the abandoned Halaco smelting plant near Oxnard's Ormond beach has bustled with trucks and people as federal regulators study the contamination on the property.  ]]></description><author>tbiasotti@venturacountystar.com (Tony Biasotti)</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jul/03/fliers-warn-of-halaco-dangers/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>EPA tells public to avoid former Halaco property
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/19/epa-tells-public-to-avoid-former-halaco-property/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency is delivering a message to anyone thinking about dropping by Halaco, the former metals recycling company in south Oxnard: &quot;Stay out.&quot;  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/19/epa-tells-public-to-avoid-former-halaco-property/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>EPA investigates informant's tip on Halaco plant
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/07/epa-investigates-informants-tip-on-halaco-plant/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a tip from a former employee, workers with the Environmental Protection Agency found radioactive waste buried under a football-field-size concrete pad at the old Halaco metals recycling plant in south Oxnard.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/07/epa-investigates-informants-tip-on-halaco-plant/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/county-news</category></item><item><title>Halaco: What went wrong?
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/03/halaco_what_went-wrong/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[The Ormond Beach smelter spewed corrosive brew for decades as owners beat back efforts by regulators and neighbors to make them stop. As officials with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency consider including the bankrupt metals recycling plant on a list of hazardous Superfund cleanup sites, some of those people are looking back at the years of seeming inaction and wondering what took so long.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/03/halaco_what_went-wrong/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/county-news</category></item><item><title>EPA to dig up parts of Halaco site
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/may/30/epa-to-dig-up-parts-of-halaco-site/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[A Gardena-based company cut up the last bits of usable uncontaminated scrap metal at the old Halaco Engineering plant in Oxnard on Tuesday as the Environmental Protection Agency prepared to dig under the plant to look for illegally buried hazardous, and possibly radioactive, waste.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/may/30/epa-to-dig-up-parts-of-halaco-site/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>Trustee searches for Halaco liability  
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/may/23/trustee-searches-for-halaco-liability/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[As crews began cutting up the uncontaminated steel and iron structures this week at the bankrupt Halaco metals recycling plant near Ormond Beach, lawyers working on behalf of the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee are dismantling the corporate structure looking for liability.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 10:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/may/23/trustee-searches-for-halaco-liability/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>Supervisors want Halaco slag pile removed 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/25/supervisors-want-halaco-slag-pile-removed/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Saying the massive slag pile laden with metals and low-level radiation at the old Halaco Engineering site in south Oxnard has to go, the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to send a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the waste.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/25/supervisors-want-halaco-slag-pile-removed/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>Future of Halaco site, hazardous materials uncertain
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/21/future-of-halaco-site-hazardous-materials/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[On a wet and muddy Friday, county Supervisor Kathy Long went out with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency to see how they planned to keep hazardous waste at the old Halaco Engineering facility from drifting into the neighboring wetlands of Ormond Beach for at least the next three years.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/21/future-of-halaco-site-hazardous-materials/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/county-news</category></item><item><title>Old Halaco plant too contaminated to remove, EPA reports
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/18/old-halaco-plant-too-contaminated-to-remove-epa/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[A company that paid a bankruptcy trustee for the right to cut up the old Halaco Engineering plant and its furnaces to sell for scrap may not get anything.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/18/old-halaco-plant-too-contaminated-to-remove-epa/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>Opinion: Will Halaco become a new Love Canal?
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/08/will-halaco-become-a-new-love-canal/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[   ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/08/will-halaco-become-a-new-love-canal/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>Wetlands near Halaco reopened 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/04/wetlands-near-halaco-reopened/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Crews working with the Environmental Protection Agency pulled down a fence and reopened a patch of wetlands next to the old Halaco smelter site at Ormond Beach, which was closed a month ago after workers found traces of radioactive isotopes there.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/apr/04/wetlands-near-halaco-reopened/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/county-news</category></item><item><title>Halaco cleanup could take years 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/23/halaco-cleanup-could-take-years/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Even if Halaco is included on a list of Superfund sites this year, the cleanup of slag laden with metals and radioactive isotopes the bankrupt company left behind near Ormond Beach could take more than a decade, according to an official from the Environmental Protection Agency.
  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/23/halaco-cleanup-could-take-years/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>Boxer presses EPA for Halaco cleanup
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/13/boxer-presses-epa-for-halaco-cleanup/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[In a short letter to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Barbara Boxer has demanded to know how the federal agency will keep people from being exposed to the metals and radioactive isotopes mixed into the huge waste pile at a former metals recycling plant in Oxnard.  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/13/boxer-presses-epa-for-halaco-cleanup/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>May 7 is deadline for Halaco plan comments
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/09/may-7-is-deadline-for-halaco-plan-comments/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[
People will have until the first week of May to comment on the proposal to include the former Halaco metals recycling facility in South Oxnard on a list of Superfund cleanup sites.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/09/may-7-is-deadline-for-halaco-plan-comments/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>EPA wants Halaco put on Superfund sites list 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/08/epa-wants-halaco-put-on-superfund-sites-list/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed adding Halaco Engineering, the former metals recycling plant and its massive pile of waste in Oxnard, to the national list of Superfund cleanup sites.
  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/08/epa-wants-halaco-put-on-superfund-sites-list/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>Radioactive thorium found at Halaco
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/06/radioactive-thorium-found-at-halaco/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency closed off public access to the Ormond Beach wetlands next to the former Halaco Engineering Co. in Oxnard after finding a mound of dirt contaminated with the radioactive isotope thorium.
  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/mar/06/radioactive-thorium-found-at-halaco/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>Firm bids $52,500 for Halaco leftovers
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/feb/23/firm-bids-52500-for-halaco-leftovers/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[Maybe it was fitting that final plans for dismantling of the polluted and bankrupt metals recycling facility, Halaco Engineering, would hinge on who was willing to haul off what's left and cut it up for scrap.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/feb/23/firm-bids-52500-for-halaco-leftovers/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item><item><title>EPA says Halaco site is a risk to health 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/feb/16/epa-releases-report-on-former-recycling-site-is/?partner=RSS</link><description><![CDATA[A massive slag heap at Ormond Beach, laden with heavy metals and sprinkled with radioactive isotopes from decades of metal recycling, poses an immediate threat to human health and the environment, according to documents released by the EPA this month.  ]]></description><author>shadley@venturacountystar.com (Scott Hadly)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:01:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2007/feb/16/epa-releases-report-on-former-recycling-site-is/?partner=RSS</guid><category>news/halaco</category></item></channel></rss>