“The work at the city’s maintenance yard involved shallow borings into the soil to obtain groundwater samples as part of the information-gathering process for the environmental review of the oil production project proposed by E&B. This is a relatively routine sampling operation for a project of this type, and it required just one day of work and little disruption of the site. While the city staff investigated the need for a state permit for the water sampling process, it was unaware that a Los Angeles County permit was needed for such work.

Q. What’s happening at the City Maintenance Yard week of May 6th? A. At the City’request, E&B is conducting 3 ground water samples on the site of the City Yard as part of E&B’s Environmental Site Assessment. The initial assessment was performed in June of 2012 and incorporated into E&B’s application as Volume 2 Appendix E and F. E&B’s Planning Application includes a Remedial Action Plan for the existing site that would be performed if the project goes forward with full implementation.

Steve Layton, President of E&B Natural Resources, contributed an article to the Easy Reader 2013 Progress Report.

E&B Natural Resources Management, Corp., a California-based oil and natural gas development company, has submitted its Project Application to construct and operate an onshore oil resource recovery facility to access known oil reserves both onshore and offshore from a single location in Hermosa Beach.