O’Brien v. Bridgestone/Firestone CA2/1
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company (Firestone) owned property in South Gate at the corner of Firestone Boulevard and Santa Fe Avenue, manufacturing tires there from 1928 to 1980. Firestone was ultimately succeeded by Bridgestone America’s Tire Company (Bridgestone).
Bridgestone sold the property to Hon Industries, Inc. (Hon) sometime after 1980, and it was eventually controlled by Iron Mountain, which leased the property to O’Brien in 1993.
In 1994, the California EPA, Department of Toxic Substances Control (EPA), issued an Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order and Remediation Action for the Property regarding a plume of solvents entering the ground and groundwater. The EPA notified current and former owners, including Bridgestone, of the order, but after years of studies issued a No Further Action Letter in 2009, authorizing unrestricted use of the property.
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