[CPEO-MEF] San Gabriel Valley Basin Cleanup (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Funds Sought for San Gabriel Valley Basin Cleanup
Water quality authority cites threats to supplies in seeking $250 
million from this year's budget surplus to complete work that started in 
'93.

By Arin Gencer
Los Angeles Times
June 5, 2006

Citing the threat of drought and earthquakes to Southern California 
water supplies, officials last week urged more state funding to complete 
cleanup of large portions of the San Gabriel Valley Basin that serves 
more than 1 million people.

Since it was established in 1993 to oversee cleanup operations, the San 
Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority has received only about $8 million 
from the state of the $560 million collected for water treatment and 
remediation efforts, officials said. Most of the money has come from the 
federal government and companies responsible for polluting the basin.

...

During and after World War II, industrial solvents and chemicals from 
local defense plants and other heavy industry penetrated the soil and 
contaminated groundwater under Alhambra, Baldwin Park, Irwindale and 
other parts of the valley. The basin is part of a massive aquifer 
serving the region.

The EPA designated four areas of the valley as Superfund sites in 1984, 
making them eligible for federal funds. But cleanup costs skyrocketed in 
1997 when perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, was discovered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-aquifer5jun05,1,1269739.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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