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CERCLIS ID Name County Reason Proposed Listed Construction completed Partially deleted Deleted CA0001576081: AMCO Chemical: Alameda: Groundwater, soil, and soil gas are contaminated with chlorinated solvents and other contaminants including vinyl chloride.
A vacuum truck exploded at the Santa Clara Waste Water plant in the early morning hours of November 18, 2014. Two workers were injured in the initial explosion, three responding fire-fighters were injured by the fumes from the spill of a highly volatile chemical mixture, and 50 others were exposed to fumes and required treatment at local hospitals.
On May 6, 1959, the City of San José and City of Santa Clara signed a joint powers agreement, "Agreement between San Jose and Santa Clara Respecting Sewage Treatment Plant", [1] giving Santa Clara 20% ownership in exchange for helping to fund upgrades at the plant, which was renamed the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant. [2]
The water that supplies the Santa Clara Valley Water District comes from various locations. Some of it comes from snowpack melt miles away. [3] This water is brought to the county through the many infrastructure projects in California, including the Federal Central Valley Project. [3] Santa Clara county also gets some of its water from recycled ...
A study by the Environmental Working Group found that contaminants could lead to nearly 100,000 cancer cases among people who drink it for a lifetime. Contaminated tap water could lead to 100,000 ...
In one of the largest water contamination cases in U.S. history, up to 1 million people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1953 to 1987 may have been exposed to a drinking ...
Between 1975 and 1985, the water supply of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune was contaminated with trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds. [10]In 1986, and later again in 2009, 2 plumes containing trichloroethylene was found on Long Island, New York due to Northrop Grumman's Bethpage factories that worked in conjunction with the United States Navy during the 1930s and 1940s.
Nov. 14—Jose Villegas, a resident of the La Cieneguilla Land Grant, attended a Santa Fe County government meeting Tuesday — his first time since 1992. That's because he is "livid" that a ...