[CPEO-IRF] El Toro (CA) groundwater cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

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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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