BILL COULD FUND CLEANUP OF AQUIFER, RIVER.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer A bill that would provide $1.75 million to clean up rocket fuel residue in one of Santa Clarita's key drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. sources is headed to President Clinton's desk. The Energy-Water Appropriations Act also includes $100,000 for a study aimed at removing a bamboo-like weed called arrundo that is wreaking environmental havoc in the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
The funding is included in a House bill approved last week that appropriates $23.6 billion for the Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and related programs. The bill provides a $2.4 billion increase over last year's funding level. U.S. Rep. Howard ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, sought the special funding for his hometown. If approved by the president, the $1.75 million would be spent on finding technology to clean perchlorates from the Saugus Aquifer, a huge underground water source tainted by defense operations and the now-defunct Bermite Power Co. plant on Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. Road. Perchlorate perchlorate: see chlorate. , a rocket fuel residue, has forced the closure of two Santa Clarita drinking water wells. Two other municipal wells were closed to avoid disturbing the plume of contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. water. |
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