San Diego
A metal finishing company that polluted Chollas Creek last year with 15,000 gallons of toxic chemicals has failed to pay $16,000 in court-ordered cleanup costs and fines, the San Diego County district attorney’s office has charged. California Creative Dynamics polluted the creek in March and April of 1985 and still owes $11,000 in fines and $5,300 in cleanup costs, prosecutors said.
A spokesman for the district attorney said prosecutors will ask a Municipal Court judge to revoke the probation of the company and its vice president, Robert Gloede. Officials also are worried about the fate of 92,000 gallons of caustic chemicals and acids remaining at the plant.
The company filed for bankruptcy this week, and officials are afraid that the chemicals and acids will be abandoned, forcing the county and state to pay for their removal.
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