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Section B <br /> Class acts 8-3 <br /> Obituaries 8-2 <br /> ' <br /> State- Lincoln Center toxic-cleanup order <br /> readies <br />-- I By Christopher Woodard The state is asking Lincoln Properties • $500,000 on environmental studics, The PCE was routinely flushed down <br /> { The Stockton Record to have the studies completed and the groundwater monitoring and engineering the sewer,but a break in a pipeline caused <br /> l further studies are the <br /> the <br /> j round- <br /> State regulatory officials are preparing equipment in place by June 1993, Higgins costs. hecompleted o completed, no toxic <br /> knows how high he wateThe leak <br /> brokeninto <br /> shallow <br /> pipe has since been <br /> said. costs will climb. fixed, stopping the flow of toxics. Higgins <br /> w slap Lincoln order shopping plaza said <br /> with a cleanup order for underground Owners n the crater have a month to Samples from the shallow groundwater <br /> toxics. comment on the draft order. After that, Lincoln Properties has filed suit <br /> Shallow groundwater beneath Stock- the board will hand down its final clean- against two current tenants, Village turned up PCE in concentrations as high <br /> up and abatement plan. Cleaners and Finest Care Cleaners,and a as 32,000 parts per billion, Higgins said. <br /> ton's first modern shopping center is Wil Smith, a vice president for Lincoln third, Norge Cleaners, that went out of The state requires cleanup for contami- <br /> heavily laced with tetrachloroetylene, a business. <br /> solvent that may have leaked from three Properties, said his company is still nation higher than 5 parts per billion. <br /> dry-cleaning t ing stores since the f960s, said studying the order, so he wasn't prepared Representatives from Village Cleaners Higgins said the state didn't name the <br /> to comment Monday. and Finest Care Cleaners declined to cleaners because the regional board has <br /> Michact Higgins an engineer with the comment. temporarily excluded dry cleaners from <br /> Regions(WaterQualityControfBoard. ' Smith criticiud.the state for holding The contamination was dicovered in cleanup orders. <br />;Of The board issued a draft cleanup order the owners of Lincoln Center rents- s e <br /> Sar et.' late last week,which sets down a time line for a problem caused by its tenants- "We 1985 when the county found traces in The board did soh give the dry�l Lure <br /> s for the owners of the center, Lincoln Just think the whole process is very un- tetrachloroetylene (known as PCE) in ng industry and the state Legislature <br /> TIS Properties Ltd., to assess the scope of the fair;' he said. deep water wells near the center. The time to study the industrywide problem of <br /> td to pollulionandinstall cleanup equipment. The owners already have spent wellshavcsincebecnshutdown. groundwater contamination. <br /> In <br /> was <br /> fie Shootings <br /> inflate <br /> WS record for <br /> 1 homicides <br /> ion for w� <br /> "wBy Christopher Woodard <br /> The Slockron Record <br /> limited ,A woman was gunned down near Ler <br /> x south Stockton home late Sunday, driv- <br /> vasing the city's grisly homicide toll to 62 for <br /> hen the year—an all-time high. <br /> sellersz mil members found Diane Harris, <br /> a ', <br />