Panel OKs Funding For Summerland Beach Oil Removal
Summerland residents are a step closer to cleaning up the oil along the shorelines.
A State Assembly subcommitte approved $900,000 to help pay for the oil clean up in Summerland. The funding still needs approval from the Legislature, but Assemblyman Das Williams feels confident the bill will pass. He hopes cleanup efforts start as early as next year.
The money would be used for Design and analysts as well as the labor to cap the old Becker Well. This would prevent future leakage.
A significant amount of oil has washed up on the beaches in the that area over the past year from capped underwater oil lines. Some of them were over 100 years old.
