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Article: River cleanup.(REGULATION WATCH)(San Gabriel River to be cleaned up)(Brief article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has just come out with a plan to reduce the flow of metals into the San Gabriel River.
Faced with a March 2007 deadline to comply with a consent decree after environmental groups sued to reduce river contaminants, the water agency has proposed eliminating most of the copper, lead, zinc and selenium from the river over the next 10 years.
A draft plan now circulating for comment covers a large area in the San Gabriel River watershed, stretching from Irwindale to Long Beach. It would require all entities that produce these metals or discharge them into watershed--including industrial plants, cities that ...