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The Starlight Mobile Home Park, photographed on Feb. 21, 2018, is one of three El Cajon mobile home parks that sits above a toxic groundwater plume.
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El Cajon toxic plume still a problem for mobile home residents

by Nicole Tyau February 23, 2018August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource

Ana Hayes moved into her home at the Starlight Mobile Home Park in El Cajon in 1969. It’s where she raised her three children, and it’s where she and her husband still live. Her home sits above a toxic groundwater plume that residents first learned about in October 2016, though state officials and the company […]

Truong Mai, a partner at Ametek environmental consultant ERM, staffs the air testing table at a community meeting on the underground contamination in El Cajon. June 4, 2017. Megan Wood/inewsource
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Company offers air testing to all El Cajon mobile home residents

by Ingrid Lobet June 15, 2017August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
A plume of TCE runs beneath neighborhoods and businesses in El Cajon. It can turn into a gas, filter up through the ground and collect indoors in unventilated spaces.
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Expert: Every home located on toxic plume in El Cajon should be tested

by Ingrid Lobet June 12, 2017August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
Ron Cox’s family lived in a mobile home park in El Cajon. Vapors from underground pollution have been found in several homes near where the Cox family lived. April 25, 2017. Brandon Quester, inewsource
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Tests reveal vapors entered homes in El Cajon

by Ingrid Lobet May 1, 2017August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
Homeowners from the Starlight Mobile Home Park and Greenfield Mobile Home Estates in El Cajon learn that vapors of industrial trichloroethylene may have seeped from groundwater into their homes. Nov. 16, 2016. Megan Wood/inewsource
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El Cajon residents pack meeting on toxic plume

by Ingrid Lobet November 17, 2016August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
A plume runs beneath a road in the Starlight Mobile Home Park in El Cajon. Oct. 18, 2016. Megan Wood/inewsource
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El Cajon homes to be tested, and a new map of a toxic plume

by Ingrid Lobet October 31, 2016August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
Nine wells to monitor and clean contaminated groundwater lie at the edge of Magnolia Elementary School grounds in El Cajon, with mobile homes across the fence. Oct. 19, 2016. Meg Wood/inewsource
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Toxic plume in El Cajon reaches beneath mobile homes

by Ingrid Lobet October 20, 2016August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource

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