Background

Micro Storage/Intel Magnetics is a three-acre groundwater site located in a light industrial park in Santa Clara, California. The site is one of several South Bay Superfund sites impacted by pollution from the early electronics industry. Intel Magnetics (IM) produced and tested magnetic products on-site. Adjacent to IM, International Diagnostic Technology (IDT) tested electro-optical instruments, and Micro Storage Corporation (MSC) later researched and pilot-developed microcomputer disk drives. Past activities are believed to have resulted in contamination of soil and groundwater with hazardous chemicals.

In the mid-1980s, federal and state agencies and potentially responsible parties (PRP) began actions to protect human health and the ...
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