"The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Justice have reached a $22-million settlement to clean up a former industrial site 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

The EPA reports 40 former customers of Cooper Drum have agreed to pay $15 million to construct a groundwater treatment system and $7 million to reimburse the agency for past cleanup work at the site.

Cooper Drum reconditioned used steel drums from industrial customers from 1974 to 1992 at the 3.8-acre site in South Gate. Residual waste leaked and contaminated the soil and groundwater."

The Associated Press had the story December 29, 2015. [2]