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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]
After sampling water sites around the country, the Surfrider Foundation, an ocean protection advocacy organization, found unsafe levels of fecal contamination at 19% of the 9,095 water samples. Of ...
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.
The water was then disposed adjacent to the compressor stations. [6] Although the dumping took place from 1952 to 1966 (when Hinkley was a remote desert community with one school and a general store), [1] PG&E did not inform the local water board about the contamination until December 7, 1987. [7]
The action could leave less water in dams for the summer, when farmers typically use it. ... Federal records show that more than 2 billion gallons were released from the reservoirs over three days.
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 ...