Is Hinkley Ca Still Contaminated?
Pg&E Representatives Said the Levels of Hexavalent Chromium in the New Location Were Never Above California's Safe Drinking Water Standard, but Residents Are...
PG&E representatives said the levels of hexavalent chromium in the new location were never above California's safe drinking water standard, but residents are angry that any levels of chromium 6 were detected at all. ...
What happened to the town of Hinkley California?
From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons (1,400 million litres) of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert (about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles).
What did PG&E do to amend the situation in Hinckley?
PG&E proposed pumping contaminated water from Hinkley area wells into nearby agricultural land, causing “a chemical process to occur by which the hexavalent chromium is reduced to trivalent chromium, a nontoxic form of chromium,” according to the regulatory filing.
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