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Trespassers seen at Halaco Superfund site
Friday, May 9, 2008
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. Full story »
EPA to hold 2 meetings on Halaco
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007
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. Full story »
Fliers warn of Halaco dangers
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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. Full story »
EPA tells public to avoid former Halaco property
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The Environmental Protection Agency is delivering a message to anyone thinking about dropping by Halaco, the former metals recycling company in south Oxnard: "Stay out." Full story »
EPA investigates informant's tip on Halaco plant
Thursday, June 7, 2007
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. Full story »
Halaco: What went wrong?
Sunday, June 3, 2007
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. Full story »
EPA to dig up parts of Halaco site
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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. Full story »
Trustee searches for Halaco liability
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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. Full story »
Supervisors want Halaco slag pile removed
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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. Full story »
Future of Halaco site, hazardous materials uncertain
Saturday, April 21, 2007
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. Full story »
Old Halaco plant too contaminated to remove, EPA reports
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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. Full story »
Opinion: Will Halaco become a new Love Canal?
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Wetlands near Halaco reopened
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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. Full story »
Halaco cleanup could take years
Friday, March 23, 2007
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.
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Boxer presses EPA for Halaco cleanup
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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. Full story »
