article_snippet: Now the town of Hinkley, California - a Mojave Desert community famous for being 'saved' by Erin Brockovich and then immortalized in Steven Soderberg's Oscar-winning film  - has been all-but deserted.
article_snippet: After the movie was released in 2000, PG&E - who paid out $333 million in an out-of-court settlement - never halted PG&E - crusade to obtain land rights for most of the town of Hinkley, California - a Mojave Desert community famous for being 'saved' by Erin Brockovich and then immortalized in Steven Soderberg's Oscar-winning film  -, and last year stopped delivering bottled water to the few locals that remained, after tests in the area showed the chromium levels were below the maximum.
article_snippet: Closed for business: Hinkley, the The Mojave Desert community whose toxic chromium contamination was portrayed in the movie 'Erin Brockovich, has already lost Hinkley post office and will now lose Hinkley only gas station and convenience store .
article_snippet: Albert Finney and Julia Roberts walk down the main street of Hinkley in a scene from Erin Brockovich .