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Santa Barbara County Pleads Guilty in Toro Canyon Oil Spills

Dec 10, 2023
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Santa Barbara County’s Water Resources Division plead guilty to two criminal misdemeanors for negligence and 12 civil allegations for not timely containing oil spills in 2020–2021 and in January 2023 in Toro Canyon Creek, in the foothills above Montecito and Summerland. (see Oil Seep from 19th Century Toro Creek Mine Causes Concern.) The county respond …

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