Long Beach Area History: Responses to Subsidence and the Tidelands Controversy

(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Abstract / Summary: In the late 1930s, oil was discovered under Long Beach harbor. Its production helped Long Beach recover from the Depression and provided revenue to support expansion and modernization of the harbor as well as enriching individuals who owned land in the area. As a result when land near the oil field began to sink, those who were profiting from pumping the oil out from under the land resisted any suggestion that there could be a link between oil production and subsidence. They hired experts to defend their position. As the subsidence continued, those whose property was damaged by the sinking, but who were not benefiting from the oil production, hired experts to determine what was really causing the sinking.
Field of Interest: Letters and Diaries
Content Type: Oral history
Format: Related Web resources
URL: https://csulb-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/206609
Publisher: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Place Published / Released: California
Subject: Letters and Diaries, History, Communities, History, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, California, Long Beach, CA, North America, United States
Keywords and Translated Subjects: United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos