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Article: Removing PCBs from water could be costly fix
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- February 25, 2008
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ASTATE WATER BOARD is taking on PCBs entering San Francisco and
Suisun bays, but it's an enormous endeavor that's going to be very
costly.
The problem is that although the manufacture of PCBs, or
polychlorinated biphenyl, was banned in 1979, the chemical keeps
popping up in our major waterways. Part of it is in the soil and
water and continues to wash into the bays as tainted stormwater.
With the ongoing reality of tainted fish and more polluted water
in the bays, the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board
took an unprecedented move and ordered a mass limit to PCBs. Under
the new limits, PCBs entering the Bay must be reduced from 34
kilograms per year to no more than 10 ...
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