as you can imagine, laxronmental protection was . .il companies would come, open a well come and get as much oil as they possibly could. and have very little concern about environmental issues. waste oil would run down the street into long beach. this is why would the people who lived there decided she would try to get people's losses taken care of by the oil companies and she fought for a number of years to get the oil companies to pay reparations to land that was lost and eventually, she prevailed. she got the oil companies to pony up $0.5 million to deal with losses. the signal hill is important for .he next 25 years in 1936, oil was discovered in the long beach harbor. this is the famous wilmington field which will produce even more billions of barrels of oil and so oil companies will come to the area they would authenticity for example that he 5% royalties and is basically about the city council to remake the city from a small seaside community that he thousand people now long beach could pave -- pave the streets -- water lines, p