[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS: La Puente unit, San Gabriel Valley, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Our View: No more delays on groundwater cleanup

Editorial
Pasadena Star-News (CA)
January 13, 2010

WITHOUT a doubt, the latest snag in the ongoing San Gabriel 
Valley/Whittier Narrows groundwater cleanup could be huge. It has the 
potential to delay progress for years or add hundreds of millions of 
dollars to the price tag.

...

Because we believe the EPA, the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality 
Authority and the companies responsible for this contamination - 
Northrop Grumman and United Technologies Corporation - are poised to 
solve this snafu and resume full cleanup in the La Puente portion of the 
basin.

...

One quarter would be blended with non-contaminated water and used for 
drinking, and the rest discharged down the San Gabriel River. 
Unfortunately, the parties failed to notice high levels of selenium, a 
naturally occurring element, which can interfere with the ability of 
microorganisms and fish to reproduce.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_14181794

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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