Hinkley CA

click photo to enlarge		 This web site makes no attempt to determine what is right or wrong. It is simply photos taken of an area that was in the news and the movie Erin Brockovich, and may be of interest to others.

You are left to draw your own conclusions.
This picture is very typical of a boarded up house. Most houses have fences around them.


click photo to enlarge		 Hinkley is in the Mojave Desert. Many times, while driving old Route 66, we passed a road that said Hinkley. One day curiosity got the better of us, and we drove to Hinkley. The movie wasn't actually filmed in Hinkley, but in Boron. 
This is Hinkley Middle School

click photo to enlarge		 There are still lawsuits going on in Hinkley. After the problems with contaminating the groundwater, the state OK'd a plan to spray the water/chromium mixture on crops instead. Read about it here.

click photo to enlarge		 There are many abandoned structures in Hinkley, and very few people living there; but then, much of the desert is host to countless structures abandoned within the last 150 years by people who tried to live in its challenging environment.

click photo to enlarge		 This PG&E compressor plant, just a few miles from downtown Hinkley, is the plant referred to in the movie, Erin Brokovich..