Atlas Asbestos Mine - California. Our mesothelioma lawyers can help if your exposure led to cancer.

The Atlas Asbestos Mine in California operated from 1963 until 1979 and consists of the asbestos mine, a processing mill, support buildings, and extensive asbestos mine tailings.

During operation, some milling and mining products from Atlas and the Coalinga Asbestos Mines were transported to the City of Coalinga.

The 107-acre area in the City of Coalinga was operated as an asbestos milling, manufacturing, storage, and transportation center. It consists of four distinct areas: the warehouse, which once was a mining waste distribution center and now houses 1,600 cubic yards of mining waste; a storage yard containing asbestos-contaminated stacked pipes; a shipping yard used as an asbestos distribution center by the Atlas Asbestos Company; and the U.S. Asbestos Company, which currently stores piles of asbestos-contaminated mining waste.

The Atlas facility drains directly into White Creek, which drains into Los Gatos Creek, a tributary of the Arroyo Pasejaro, a flood area along the California Aqueduct. A detention basin was built in the flood plain to store water during heavy runoff and to allow the asbestos-laden sediment to settle. Sediments carried by floodwaters have silted up the detention basin and have diminished its storage capacity. As a result, during heavy floods the waters may be released into the canal through four drain inlets, and asbestos can be carried into the aqueduct.

Elevated levels of asbestos have been found in the aqueduct. However, most of the downstream users of the aqueduct water are protected by filtration and settling pond systems, which trap most of the asbestos fibers.

Many miners have come forward to say their work environment led to a diagnosis of mesothelioma, asbestosis or lung cancer from asbestos.

If this has been your experience, our asbestos lawyers may be able to help you receive compensation for your health problems.

For over two decades, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. has handled some of the most legally complicated and groundbreaking asbestos litigation in the country, winning many millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements along the way.

Men and women diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure or secondary exposure may be entitled to compensation from the companies responsible for their disease.

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