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LULAC speaker urges State Water Board to investigate worker safety and contamination at Napa-area landfill
Summary
At public forum the State Water Board heard a request from California LULAC for the board to agendize sworn hearings into alleged long-term contamination and worker-safety problems affecting Latino waste workers at several Bay Area facilities, including Clover Flat Landfill in Napa County.
At the State Water Resources Control Board’s public forum on Aug. 19, Jeff Ellsworth, a member of California LULAC and the Napa Valley waste workers advisory committee, urged the board to agendize a formal hearing and said LULAC will provide a national resolution addressing alleged harms to Latino waste workers.
Ellsworth told the board he had recently presented the issues to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board and said his committee has documented concerns about long-term exposure to toxic wastewater, fires, alleged unregulated radioactive…
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