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The Sacramento Bee �rmwmaa;,: ,sash Wednesday;December 2,1992„ <br /> UORCALIFORNIX, BITUARII; I <br /> � OBITUARIE�; <br /> lie <br /> .�Y,, <br /> ass des its complaints from some rests <br /> auran m owners a a ' • prove <br /> smoking ban was driving their ees <br /> s away. I to Orovi Ile. ! ,; <br /> ecember." ovs e, Ig <br /> and Gri <br /> ' to S ey still have only partial smoking bane: <br /> idop 11 ass similar <br /> Now, she measures,"said Ellena, e u <br /> i� <br /> r only op- health education official. Ellena's d <br /> pasgn on the <br /> a an aC <br /> 1s in 1991 P1ease see V 7 <br /> Santa Fe ' .",,.. <br /> to, pay , Or <br /> ponution.,+; <br /> Fined record $300,000 ; <br /> in San'Joaquin County <br /> WBmMein Staff <br /> The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway agrees( <br /> Tuesday to a$300,000 fine and pleaded no contest to <br /> charges it dumped tens of thousands of tons of pol- <br /> lutants in San Joaquin River Delta wetlands. i <br /> The fine is San Joaquin County's largest in a crim- <br /> inal case for environmental violations, according to <br /> Deputy District Attorney David Irey. <br /> The railroad company also agreed to give$250,Mb <br /> rata°.the coubty's'Envtrotimental Health Division. <br /> 'beef up that department's toxic enforcement wd L <br /> The funds are to supplement the department's trai - <br /> Ing and educational programs, as well as inves <br /> tion and sampling work. <br /> The case arose from the dumping of toxic to <br /> into water and wetlands in an area no f W <br /> ward Island,about 10 miles weat of S n. <br /> Creosote coated timbers, paint dr epo• cans <br /> and othW, material' was diapoe OC beoffhing in <br /> 1991, as Company began recd at ion of rail- <br /> way trethC i0c6rding to San Joe in County Dis- <br /> trict Attgrney John Phillips. y+,2r. <br /> Santa Fe Railway officials in Ch cago could nbt'1p, <br /> reached for comment. <br /> More than a year ago, Santa Fe Railway sought <br /> bids for removal of waste, but didn't hire anyone to <br /> do the work until August of this year, despite en- <br /> forcement efforts by the district attorney and the <br /> California.,Department-of Fish and Gine,_Phillfps <br /> r said. <br /> Adcording t0 Philh'pp' the work was eta <br /> l prlipbTly,Atrtfler dismaying the wetlands, a <br /> not until OctobertliatEanta Fe Railway sciai <br /> i Illihois agreed'to proper cleanup.Since an he 'd, <br /> the company has spent more than 0,000 clean <br /> the area and,properly dispose.of th oxica <br /> Af, Work will�inchide'removal ofroad-Fja e' materillls <br /> S from the wetlands and plant restored n,, <br /> The company also agreed to relriburse state and <br /> county officials about $25,000 foil costs associated <br /> with the case. <br /> Robert Krebs, chief executive officer of the compa- <br /> ny,is to publish a letter of apology in a half-page ad- <br /> vertisement in the Stockton Record. t <br /> The district attorney estimated that the total cot <br /> of the fines, the grant to the healthdepartinblit, <br /> cleanup and restoration costs would come to'more <br /> "�.' than 911 F millinn. <br />