Local News in Brief : Home Park Owner Cited
The city of Carson has charged the owner of a mobile home park built on a former dump with violating state laws by failing to control seepage of potentially explosive methane gas.
The misdemeanor charges, filed in Compton Municipal Court against Anton Berkovitz, a Palos Verdes Peninsula resident who owns the Imperial Carson mobile home park, are the first by the city involving methane, a foul-smelling gas produced by the decomposition of garbage.
The charges allege that a methane gas collection system installed at the park has not received an operating permit from the Southern California Air Quality Management District and that Berkovitz is not monitoring methane gas under mobile homes, as required by state law.
The site is a former landfill that began operations in 1948 and was converted in 1966 to a mobile home park.
Carson has several dozen former landfills, but Imperial Carson is the only mobile home park built on one.
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