NO POLLUTION ON THE WESTSIDE BLUFFS?
During the last election campaign, City Council candidate Bruce Garlich said that there's no pollution on the Westside Bluffs.
He was wrong.
He also lost the election; much to the chagrin of Katrina Foley, Linda Dixon, the folks in Return to Reason, and a bunch of industrialists with factories on the Bluffs.
The State of California is now in the process of cleaning up a 6 acre site on Monrovia near 16th Street that is contaminated by a "pool" of toxic chemicals approximately 20 feet down that has apparently moved to that spot from another location in the area.
Some believe that the Monrovia site is just the tip of the iceberg.
The CM PRESS believes that the City of Costa Mesa should take a more active role in seeing that the Bluffs are cleaned up.
In addition, and although this is unrelated to the pollution issue, the CM PRESS believes that the City should consider buying land on the Bluffs in the area south of 19th Street down to the Newport Beach border for a new soccer field/park/skateboard park.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
