[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS; Northrop Grumman settles San Gabriel Valley (CA) suit

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Company will clean up San Gabriel Valley contamination

Bettina Boxall
Los Angeles Times Greenspace
August 28, 2009

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to spend $21 
million to clean up polluted groundwater in the San Gabriel Valley.

Under a consent decree settlement announced this week by the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, the company will pump contaminated 
water from beneath the City of Industry, La Puente and Walnut; build 
pipelines; and construct and operate a treatment plant.

The area is one of four federal Superfund sites in the San Gabriel 
Valley, where more than 30 square miles of the water table are polluted 
with solvents and degreasing agents used for decades by business and 
industry.

The pollution, first detected in 1979, has affected the primary source 
of water for more than 1 million valley residents, forcing the closure 
of wells and spawning a long cleanup battle.

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For the entire article, see
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/08/superfund-groundwater-san-gabriel-valley.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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