City, Eight Others Told to Pay for Bay Cleanup
From Times Wire Reports
San Diego water quality officials on Friday compelled the city, Chevron, BP and six other parties to share the estimated $96-million cost of cleaning up tainted sediment south of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.
The preliminary order by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board surprised observers. It is part of a decades-long effort to restore a bay filled with toxic chemicals and metals.
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