“It’s official. The Seal Beach City Council wants BP/ARCO to dig out contaminated soil below a gas station where fumes from an old gasoline leak seeped into neighboring homes last winter, causing three temporary evacuations.
“We want to solve the problem and move on,” City Manager David Carmany said of the three-decades long effort to end the contamination problem. “We don’t want to be doing this for the next 20 years. Enough.”