CHROMIUM 6 FUNDING SOUGHT GLENDALE HOPES TO CREATE SAFETY STANDARDS.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE - City officials are seeking state and federal grants to cover the estimated $12 million needed to develop and implement technology that could remove chromium chromium (krō`mēəm) [Gr.,=color], metallic chemical element; symbol Cr; at. no. 24; at. wt. 51.996; m.p. about 1,857°C;; b.p. 2,672°C;; sp. gr. about 7.2 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, +6. 6 from Glendale's 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. . To help secure the money, the City Council tonight will consider paying $30,000 to hire a consultant specializing in grant acquisitions. ``We feel federal and state funding support is warranted because we are doing original research work that other water agencies throughout the state can benefit from,'' Don Froelich, water services administrator, said Monday. Froelich said the research undertaken by Glendale could be used by state and federal regulators to establish future standards for chromium 6, an industrial byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. that has been detected in the water supplies of dozens of municipalities in California. Currently, there are standards only for total chromium, but not for chromium 6, one of the components of the chemical. The federal standard for drinking water is 100 parts per billion of total chromium; the state standard is 50 ppb ppb abbr. parts per billion . City officials estimate that developing the technology for chromium 6 removal will cost $3 million and that building a new plant will cost $9 million. Research and construction are expected to take four to five years. Froelich and his staff have already put together a proposal to seek $3 million in state funding. The Assembly appropriations subcommittee sub·com·mit·tee n. A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee. subcommittee Noun is scheduled to consider the request Thursday. At the same time, city officials are working closely with state Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, on a bill that would allocate $15 million to develop technology and demonstration facilities for chromium 6 removal throughout California. The bill, SB 460, has been referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality, but no hearing date has been set. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , city officials are negotiating with federal regulators to close wells that have high chromium 6 levels and only deliver water from those with the least contamination after it has been blended with imported water. For now, the water treated at the city's Flower Street treatment plant is dumped into the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. . |
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