Lubbock, Texas

===Environmental issues===
The Scrub-A-Dubb Barrel Company, in the north of the city, had been the cause of public complaints, and committed numerous environmental violations, since the 1970s.<ref name=kcbd1>{{cite news |last=Little |first=Ann Wyatt |title=City removes Scrub-A-Dubb land from proposed zoning change |url=http://www.kcbd.com/story/10514033/city-removes-scrub-a-dubb-land-from-proposed-zoning-change |access-date=2011-09-02 |newspaper=[[KCBD|KCBD News]] |date=June 12, 2009 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318064200/http://www.kcbd.com/story/10514033/city-removes-scrub-a-dubb-land-from-proposed-zoning-change |url-status=live }}</ref> Local [[KCBD]] News undertook several investigations into the barrel recycling company's waste-handling practices, and when the business closed in 2011, the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] was called in to begin cleaning up the site, which they described as "a threat to public health, welfare, and the environment".<ref name=wire>{{cite news |title=EPA takes charge of hazardous waste site in North Lubbock |url=http://www.localwireless.com/wap/news/text.jsp?carrier=google&sid=122&nid=61353184&cid=162&scid=-1&title=Local+News&ith=0 |access-date=2011-09-02 |newspaper=Lubbock Local News |date=August 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144500/http://www.localwireless.com/wap/news/text.jsp?carrier=google&sid=122&nid=61353184&cid=162&scid=-1&title=Local+News&ith=0 |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Greg Fife, the EPA's on-site coordinator, said: "Out of the 60,000 [barrels] we have on site, we think there are between 2,000 and 4,000 that have significant hazardous waste in them". Local residents were informed, "hazardous substances have overflowed the vats and flowed off the site into nearby Blackwater Draw and subsequently through Mackenzie recreational park. The runoff is easily accessible to children at play in the park, golfers, and the park's wildlife." Remediation of the site was expected to take at least five months, at a cost of $3.5 million in federal dollars.<ref name=kcbd2>{{cite news |last=Slother |first=Michael |title=EPA takes charge of hazardous waste site in North Lubbock |url=http://www.kcbd.com/story/15362019/epa-takes-charge-of-hazardous-waste-site-in-north-lubbock |access-date=2011-09-02 |newspaper=[[KCBD|KCBD News]] |date=August 31, 2011 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318064231/http://www.kcbd.com/story/15362019/epa-takes-charge-of-hazardous-waste-site-in-north-lubbock |url-status=live }}</ref>