San Diego
The California Department of Health Services on Thursday announced that asbestos and heavy metals contamination in a Paradise Hills neighborhood has been eliminated.
The monthlong, $350,000 cleanup of four lots on Edgewater Street was completed in December, according to Allan Hirsch, a department spokesman. Soil samples analyzed early this year confirmed that the neighborhood was free of contamination, he said.
Hazardous waste was discovered in Paradise Hills in 1988, during excavation for a swimming pool. Follow-up testing by San Diego County detected asbestos and high levels of lead, zinc and copper.
Since then, one of the affected homeowners has sued the Navy, the developer who built her home and the pool company that unearthed the waste. She alleges the Navy dumped its waste at the site during the 1930s.
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