[CPEO-BIF] Water from San Fernando Valley Superfund sites, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Drought-ravaged L.A. seeks surprising source of water: A contaminated Superfund site

BY HAYLEY SMITH
Los Angeles Times (CA)
December 12, 2022 

As drought and climate change ravage California’s once-reliable supply of drinking water, officials in Los Angeles are setting their sights on a relatively new, almost untapped resource for the city’s 4 million residents: the Superfund site in their own backyard.

Nearly 70% of the city’s 115 wells in the San Fernando Valley groundwater basin — the largest such basin under the purview of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — have been sitting unused for decades after dangerous contaminants seeped into the aquifer.

Now, the city is nearing the completion of a massive, $600-million plan to bring that resource back online. Centered on three treatment facilities in the San Fernando Valley, the groundwater remediation project will essentially create giant filters for the city’s toxic plume, enabling Angelenos to regain full access to up to 87,000 acre-feet of water each year, or nearly a fifth of what they consume.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-12/los-angeles-looks-to-a-contaminated-aquifer-for-new-water

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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