One of Los Angeles County’s most polluted stretches of land will soon be cleared for new development, and a full accounting of the ground’s degradation will be left largely to an oil company.
For almost 40 years in the middle of the 20th century, workers at an oil refinery with connected facilities in the neighborhood of Wilmington and nearby city of Carson buried truckloads of slop oil and acid sludge directly on site. Decades later, much of that waste is still in the soil and water table, state records show.
