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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.
The Calero Reservoir. The Guadalupe River watershed consists of 170 square miles (400 km 2) of land within northern California's Santa Clara County.The surface runoff from this area drains into the Guadalupe River, its tributary streams, reservoirs or other bodies of water which all eventually gets carried into the San Francisco Bay (indicated below, with surrounding counties in red).
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]
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
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Water contaminated by the animal urine carrying the bacteria Begins with flu-like symptoms then resolves. The second phase then occurs involving meningitis, liver damage (causes jaundice), and kidney failure: Otitis Externa (swimmer's ear) Caused by a number of bacterial and fungal species. Swimming in water contaminated by the responsible ...
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.
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 ...