A handful of residents shared how a “dream home” in either Castaic or Val Verde had become a nightmare – thanks to the ongoing pollution problems at Chiquita Canyon Landfill – at a news conference Friday inside Castaic Community AME Church.
As Castaic resident Darcy Stinson, a disabled veteran, talked about the “horror story” his neighborhood had become and described his battle with cancer, a 13-year-old boy who lives near the landfill started getting a nosebleed.
Instincts kicked in for Dr. Jasmeet Bains, a family and addiction specialist in Kern County, and one of a half-dozen legislators Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, invited to a landfill tour and news conference that was streamed online.