2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 3 Sep 2006 16:53:09 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] San Gabriel Valley (CA) cleanup
 
Valley sees progress
More time, funding still needed to complete effort

By Fred Ortega
Whittier Daily News
September 3, 2006


It has been more than 20 years since dangerous chemicals were first detected in the vast, underground water basin beneath the San Gabriel Valley, and substantial progress is finally being made in cleaning up the toxic mess.


But officials say a lot more work - and more money - is needed to finish the decades-long job.

So far, a little more than $500 million in funding has been secured for the estimated $1 billion needed to remove contaminants from six different hot spots in the Valley, said Gabriel Monares, director of development for the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority. The authority was formed by the state Legislature in 1993 to manage water treatment programs in the basin, which is roughly the size of Lake Tahoe and provides about 92 percent of the San Gabriel Valley's drinking water.

The contaminants in the basin, which include mostly industrial solvents called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and perchlorate, an ingredient found in jet fuel, can have an adverse effect on people's health if ingested in large enough quantities.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_4281469
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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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