Myriad chemicals enter environment
"Hazardous materials spill in Ventura County. A lot. There were 100 gallons of acetone, styrene and other flammable chemicals dumped into an Oxnard street after a 2007 tractor-trailer crash. More than 200 gallons of sulfuric acid emptied into Ventura's storm drains after a spill at a linen supply company in 2006. A few cups of cyanide after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in Oxnard had to be dealt with. And then there are the more than 15,000 gallons of gas and diesel spilled after car accidents, 10 million gallons of sewage that flowed into the county's streams and more than 540,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled onto the ground during oil production. All told, more than 13 million gallons of pollutants have spilled on the ground and into the waterways around Ventura County in the past five years."
