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Sign up for local news and alerts; we will not sell your email, who does that? _____________ January 15, 2024 By Laurie Hanson With hanger fires out at the former Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Tustin, the U.S. Navy's ground-water cleanup of carcinogenic contaminants continues and is likely for many years to come. According to…
The rain this week has helped dampen smoke from the hangar fire on the former Marine Corps base.
Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping.
Communities still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping.
Orange County Water District works to clean polluted groundwater from decades of manufacturing A water sample is tested for PFAS compounds at the Orange County Water District in 2019. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) April 1, 2021 4:07 PM PT Print Underneath Orange County is a hidden arterial highway that groundwater moves through before eventually finding its way into homes. More than 70% of the water served in Orange County is from groundwater. But some of that water has become contaminated from industrial manufacturing when harmful chemicals that weren’t properly disposed of...