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Hinkley Revisited: How Water Remediation Works - part 2

April 26, 2014 : Hinkley : BWW :

(continued from part 1)

This will keep up for another 40 years. Yes, 40 years. Though much of the chrom-6 is removed, the PPB near the ethanol plant is still around 50 PPB, making it lower than federal standards. Moving south it gets higher and at ground zero, the compressor station, it has been measured between 4,000-7,300 PPB. As the water fans out and dissipates through the aquifer, the 236 acres of agriculture finishes off the remaining minute traces of chrom-6. PGandE has planted alfalfa, Italian rye, winter wheat, and sudangrass and the organics from the crops convert the chrom-6, and ...Read more...

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