[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, VOCs: Mather AFB (CA) payment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U.S. to pay $250,000 over groundwater pollution

By Denny Walsh
Sacramento Bee (CA)
April 9, 2008

The federal government has agreed to pay California-American Water Co. 
$250,000 to defray the company's costs of cleaning up hazardous waste 
found in one of its drinking water wells in Rancho Cordova.

The government has also agreed to undertake renewed testing at the well 
and, if further pollution at a certain level is detected, provide 
treatment of the water at the wellhead or an alternative source of clean 
water.

The well, on Mars Way in the Lincoln Village area of Rancho Cordova, was 
fouled by groundwater pollution emanating from the former Mather Air 
Force Base east of it.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/848796.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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