Toxic Brine

San Francisco, CA: (Nov-07-07) A deputy Alameda County district attorney filed six civil charges against Cargill Salt, accusing the company of violating state water pollution laws after it spilled 218,000 gallons of toxic brine into the marshes along San Francisco Bay in Newark in 2006. Sources stated that the toxic spill, Cargill's sixth in or around the Bay since 1999, killed fish and plants in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Reports show the spill occurred on Aug. 3, 2006. That morning, a Cargill employee began pumping bittern, a byproduct of salt-making, that is up to 10 times as salty as the ocean and potentially lethal to fish, shrimp and other aquatic life, eastward from Redwood City through a pipe across the Bay to a Cargill site in Newark. The accident occurred because an employee hadn't realized that a valve in the pipe was closed. As part of a settlement reached, Cargill Salt has agreed to pay $228,000 to resolve allegations. [INSIDE BAY AREA: TOXIC BRINE]

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Published on Nov-11-07