The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to file a lawsuit against Chevron for the costs of cleaning up an oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach last October.
The oil company owned the abandoned pipeline where the leak originated, according to O.C. Supervisor Katrina Foley.
“While we were making some repairs to the flood channel, we hit the pipe, and it’s an abandoned pipeline that had oil in it, and it leaked,” Foley told KNX News’ Emily Valdez.
Now Chevron could be on the hook to repay the cost of the cleanup, which the county estimates at $1.8 million.
“Hopefully they will take responsibility and they will take care of the clean-up cost and take on the accountability for basically abandoning a pipeline a long time ago and not properly disposing of the oil that was in the pipeline,” Foley said.
After the spill, the ruptured portion of the abandoned pipeline was removed, and there have been no further oil leaks.
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