Company Fined $15,000 in Soil Dumping Case
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An excavating company was fined $15,000 Monday for illegally dumping gasoline-contaminated soil at a Sun Valley landfill.
L. Bain Co., based in Paramount, was also placed on three years’ informal probation by Municipal Court Commissioner Robert Sandoval after company attorneys pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of knowingly disposing of hazardous waste at an unlicensed facility.
The city attorney’s office said the company had been hired to dig up a leaking fuel tank at a Unocal service station in Pacoima in June, 1989, then illegally dumped gasoline-contaminated soil from the excavation site at the Bradley Landfill in Sun Valley. Unocal was fined $4,700 in May after pleading no contest to two misdemeanor hazardous waste counts in the case.
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