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Santa Clara County soil tainted by pesticides

10/30/07 Posted in Environment, Health

Amy Lynch of The San Jose Mercury News reports on environmental issues plaguing Santa Clara County. The county
has more toxic cleanup sites involving old orchard pesticides than any county in California, as well as a significant number of other sites contaminated by other types of farming or pesticide handling, according to a Mercury News analysis of state records.” It is believed that the problem is more extensive than even these reports suggest because they have only been identified due to pending development. Accompanying materials detail how the contamination occurred, a map of contamination sites, and the types of pesticides (pdf) present in the county.

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