Monday, January 14, 2008

Clean water finally coming for Chica California residents with contaminated wells

January 11, 2008 - Clean water is coming to a south Chico neighborhood — a neighborhood where wells were contaminated years ago by chemical pollutants.

About 60 homes in the Skyway Avenue subdivision will be hooked up to the Cal Water system and the bill will be footed by ABB, the corporation being held responsible for clean-up costs.

Bottled water was first provided to the homes, then filters, soon after a plume of groundwater contamination was identified about four years ago, but the residents wanted a more permanent solution.

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