City Sues Chevron for Polluting Aquifer
Cambria has sued Chevron Corp. alleging the oil giant fouled a source of its drinking water.
The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleges that a Main Street service station the company owned until 1995 leaked gasoline into an underground aquifer supplied by Santa Rosa Creek.
The city, just north of Morro Bay, has discontinued pumping from that supply and relies on its other water source, an aquifer near San Simeon Creek.
Chevron spokesman Ed Spaulding said, “Chevron accepted responsibility” last year for the pollution and was “actively working on the cleanup.”
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