[CPEO-BIF] "Water Board finalizes TCE cleanup order" near San Luis Obispo, California airport

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water Board finalizes TCE cleanup order on Buckley Road 

BY PETER JOHNSON
San Luis Obispo New Times (CA)
August 22, 2019

For more than 20 years, Central Coast water quality regulators knew that a carcinogenic solvent, trichloroethylene (TCE), had contaminated the groundwater in a rural mixed-use area near the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport.

After years of inaction, including a 15-year period where the case went cold, on July 31, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board executed a final cleanup order of the TCE, which poisoned at least 14 wells near Buckley Road.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/water-board-finalizes-tce-cleanup-order-on-buckley-road/Content?oid=8743457

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