Homes on Oil Fields
According to a Sept. 28 item, 188 houses are to be built among pumps on an operating Signal Hill oil field. Furthermore, according to Geoffrey Le Plastrier, “Building homes on abandoned oil fields is fairly common. Most of Huntington Beach and many other communities in Southern California are built on abandoned oil fields.”
Are we to understand, then, that oil fields, be they active or abandoned, are not hazardous to occupants of homes--only occupants of classrooms?
DICK WILSON
San Pedro
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