Brea Mayor Named to Stringfellow Committee

Brea Mayor John Sutton has been selected to represent the Orange County League of Cities on the association’s Stringfellow advisory committee, which oversees the cleanup process at the Glen Avon toxic dump site.

In the cleanup process, well water from the Stringfellow acid pits in Riverside County is intercepted, processed for cleaning and then shipped to Huntington Beach, where it is processed a second time at a water treatment plant.

“Orange County is directly affected by this cleanup process because a plume of contaminated ground water from that site does come out in wells and eventually finds its way to Orange County,” Sutton said.

The volume of water from Stringfellow is only .01% of the total volume handled by the Orange County Sanitation District, he said. The process does not pose a hazard to Orange County, Sutton said, “but we do need to watch this process very closely.”

The Stringfellow site is about half a mile north of the Pomona Freeway at the end of Pyrite Road. From 1956 until it was closed in 1972, Stringfellow was a licensed toxic waste site where 35 million gallons of hazardous materials were dumped.