[CPEO-MEF] San Gabriel Valley water treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Big Daddy' of purifiers
Eight companies identified by EPA as major offenders helped fund
facility 

By Karen Rubin 
Pasadena Star-News (CA)
October 10, 2004 

BALDWIN PARK -- A $37 million water-treatment plant that turns polluted
groundwater into something residents can drink from the tap is set to
open in January.

The plant belongs to the Valley County Water District, which provides
water to Baldwin Park, Azusa, Irwindale and West Covina.

The new plant is the "Big Daddy" of the four treatment facilities
because it attacks the worst portion of pollution floating in the
groundwater. It also will pump the majority of its clean water through a
5-mile pipeline to residents in West Covina.

"This plant goes after the source of contamination," said Wayne
Praskins, project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"The other plants cleaned less polluted groundwater. This plant will
clean the most polluted groundwater in Baldwin Park."

...

The EPA continues to hit hard Aerojet-General Corp. The company forked
over money for the Baldwin Park plant and is now fighting with the EPA
over contamination in South El Monte. The company once had a plant that
made light rocket fuel in that area. 

"Because we do work for the Department of Defense, there is a tendency
to assume it is our fault in the South El Monte area," said Linda
Cutler, an Aerojet spokeswoman. "It is fundamentally unfair."

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~22097~2459406,00.html

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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
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