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Article: United States: Riverside s plan to use recycled water on orange groves is on hold.
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- November 10, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
Concerns about Riverside's iconic citrus groves have sidetracked the city's plan to bolster drinking-water supplies by irrigating the trees with treated wastewater.
At least one grower along with UC Riverside researchers are concerned that boron, an element used in bleach and detergents and prevalent in wastewater, will accumulate in the soil and damage the trees.
The city had planned to divert fresh water from the century-old Gage and Riverside canals and replace it with the recycled wastewater from the city's sewage treatment plant. Both canals currently carry water from underground basins in the San Bernardino Valley.
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