Summerland’s Becker Well Capped

Keith Hamm, Santa Barbara Independent

“Crews aboard the 180-foot barge DB Salta Verde set up shop just off Summerland early Monday to execute the final phase of a three-year, $1.4 million effort to properly seal the Becker Well, a long-abandoned oil pipe that has been seeping raw crude along one of the South Coast’s most popular beaches. . .”