Metal Waste Near California Harbor Draws Environmental Suit

Oct. 14, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

The owners of a facility that manufactured parts for the aviation industry are failing to clean up metal shavings that are contaminating an estuary in California, an environmental group says in its lawsuit filed in a federal court in the state.

The failure by Allied Engineering & Production Corp., Allied Land Co., and Stone Boatyard LLC to clean up the metal shavings is a public nuisance and violates the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Allied Engineering operated a machine shop at the facility ...

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