THERMAL, CALIF. -- Mark Adams smiled serenely as
an industrial-sized Roto-Rooter truck noisily sucked thousands of gallons of raw sewage from a stinking pond....
Electricians inspected the 276 trailers and found 30 in need of immediate repair.
In 10 trailers, the toilets had rotted through the floors and were sitting on the ground."I have cleaned up slums all over California but have taken on nothing as daunting as Duroville," Adams said, as he strode the dusty roads between densely packed trailers. "The magnitude of this is amazing."
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The U.S. attorney's office has asked the judge to shut down the 40-acre park, which sits on the Torres Martinez reservation, saying it poses unacceptable safety risks to the 6,000 farm workers living there. Past inspections have turned up water quality violations, sewage beneath trailers, faulty electrical systems and trailers packed too closely together.
LA TimesA day in the life of a farm worker in the world's riches country.
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