Chapman & Mulberry shoulder “pollution burden”
Public comment period closes April 1
A roughly triangular area surrounded by Highway 99, Humboldt and Park avenues and Comanche Creek is the most pollution-burdened census tract in Chico, according to a draft map, the interactive CalEnviroScreen 5.0 map. The low-income neighborhoods of Chapman and Mulberry, lying within this area, also shoulder a “pollution burden” worse more than almost 93 percent of California, the map shows …
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