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The Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site is located within the Clear Creek Management Area near Fresno County, eighteen miles northwest of Coalinga, California. The mine started operating in 1963, covering 435 acres of a large naturally occurring asbestos deposit.
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
The natural rock formations in the area have been shedding asbestos-rich debris into stream valleys for millions of years [17] The average New Idria rock contains 5-15% by volume short fiber asbestos. [17] The 2010 edition of Rand McNally's The Road Atlas labels the area immediately south of New Idria as an "Asbestos Hazard Area".
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San Benito Mountain is the highest mountain in the Diablo Range of California.The summit is at an elevation of 5,267 feet (1,605 m). The rock is composed of asbestos (chrysotile), an ultramafic rock.
The ban of chrysotile asbestos, the only form of asbestos currently used in or imported to the United States, comes after the EPA under the previous Trump administration delayed banning the substance.
New Idria used the process of calcination to mine mercury, which involved crushing and roasting cinnabar, then condensing the release of mercury vapor. [4] The leftover ores or calcines from this process were piled along with other waste rock, totaling between 0.5 and 2 million tons and cover over 40 acres of mining ground.
The following zones are under a mandatory evacuation order: Due to an "immediate threat to life," according to Cal Fire, the following areas are under a mandatory evacuation order: