The Region - News from March 25, 1985
Engineers hired by the state to clean out Fullerton’s McColl toxic waste dump said that excavation could begin within two months, but where the 200,000 tons of waste will be taken has become more uncertain than ever. State officials in charge of the cleanup had been planning to truck the waste 200 miles to the Casmalia Resources dump in Santa Barbara County. But that dump’s general partner, Ken Hunter Jr., has refused to commit to accepting the waste and gave notice that he was raising his fee from $30 to $140 a ton.
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