[CPEO-BIF] "Lodi [California] council votes to maintain carbon filtration system for water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lodi council votes to maintain carbon filtration system for water

By Oula Miqbel
Lodi News-Sentinel (CA)
December 13, 2018

The Lodi City Council recently voted in favor of maintaining the city’s carbon filtration system.

Following years of legal battles over PCE/TCE contamination in the early 2000s, Lodi’s city council installed a carbon filtration system to prevent contaminated water from being filtered through the town’s water supply.

The city installed permanent wells and started operating them in March 2011. Prior to that, there was a pilot facility that also removed the chemicals. Between 2006 and 2011, the city removed 8,023 pounds of PCE/TCE from the ground.

According to City Manager Steve Schwabauer, Lodi is not changing the sequence or filtration, it is merely updating the carbon needed to maintain the filtration.
“It is like the Golden Gate Bridge. Nothing changes structurally but it is routinely being serviced and receiving maintenance. The carbon in this instance is just being replaced,” Schwabauer said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_60b90340-feaf-11e8-986d-6b2fd8e1c2e9.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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