Tag Archives: Ametek

Ametek, Inc. is offering to test the air in any home in the three mobile home communities located over an increasingly high profile chemical plume that runs underground through part of El Cajon. The company is among those responsible for disposing of waste chemicals from a manufacturing site decades ago, and is now the sole responsible party. Another, Ketema Aerospace, ... Read More »

There is no doubt now that some residents of two mobile home parks in El Cajon have been exposed to toxic gas seeping into their homes from a plume of contaminated groundwater. Recent air testing and a newly released health risk study make that clear. Residents of the Starlight Mobile Home Park and Greenfield Mobile Estates will have their first ... Read More »

Vapors from a dangerous chemical that runs underground in El Cajon have seeped into people’s homes, new air testing shows, contrary to what some residents were led to expect when they learned of the plume last October. In some homes, people may have breathed the gas for years or even decades. State officials offered 19 households in the Starlight Mobile ... Read More »

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Trichloroethylene and other toxics have flowed for years from a former aerospace firm under a school and mobile home park, but residents didn't know. Read More »

An underground plume of the chemical trichloroethylene in El Cajon reaches under mobile homes, and many residents are unaware. Read More »