December 18, 2009

...and dare we say it?--a jerk.

From L.A. Weekly:

For Steven Dahlberg, owner of the Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park, decades of allowing polluted runoff and leaking sewage into the Pacific Ocean paid off with an early Christmas present. In a season of shopping for discounts, Dahlberg just got a sweet markdown from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees on the Southern California Regional Water Quality Control Board: about 97 percent.

Paradise Cove is one of the most scenic waterfront sites in California, a relatively undeveloped gem tucked away on the Malibu coastline, which is perfect for swimming, surfing and filming. Thousands of films and ads have been shot there, from Gidget in the 1960s to The Rockford Files in the ’70s and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

But Paradise Cove also has a dirty secret: Locals have for decades called it “Parasite Cove,” with its chronic problem, which they attribute mainly to mobile home–park owner Dahlberg’s Kissel Co. and the environmental impact of the firm’s properties. Surfers, swimmers and others talk about getting chronic coughs, runny noses and staph infections after braving the Paradise Cove waters.More

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