[CPEO-MEF] San Gabriel Valley (CA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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