2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 28 Jan 2007 05:13:08 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] El Toro (CA) groundwater cleanup
 
Getting El Toro spick-and-span
Groundwater cleanup begins at the old military base and future Great Park.

By SONYA SMITH
 ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA)
January 27, 2007

IRVINE - The last major pollution cleanup at the old El Toro base has begun.

Thirty-five pumps are now drawing up 390 gallons of polluted groundwater per minute, around the clock. The remediation will cost the federal government $42 million and could take 30 years.

The pumps are drawing up solvent-laced water from rock, sand and clay in an underground plume that extends about four miles under the base and into the neighboring village of Woodbridge.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1556616.php

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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