Local News in Brief : Aetna Ordered to Pay
Carson is the victor in a lawsuit about building streets, sewers and other public works in a 157-acre former landfill known as the Cal Compact site. The result is that Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. will foot the bill for $5.9 million in improvements, according to Carson City Atty. Glenn Watson.
Aetna was the guarantor of a 1985 performance bond bought by the developers that the street work, in connection with a project at the site, would be done within two years. The bond expired in August.
Development plans fell through because of difficulties in cleaning up the site, where approximately 1.6 million barrels of oil-drilling material, paint sludge, tank-bottom gunk, laundry-sump waste and other industrial waste was dumped between 1957 and 1965.
The improvements, which will be carried out by J. A. Jones Construction Co., will include paving a network of dirt roads in the dump and putting in sewers.
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