Chevron's plan to clean up the MTBE in Capistrano's groundwater is available online.
The idea is to essentially build a fitering system near City Hall and use the city's Dance Hall Well to suck out the tainted water, run through filters, then on to the city's Groundwater Recovery Plant. There, it will be scrubbed again and sent out to residents.
City officials aren't satisfied with the plan, which they say doesn't go far enough. They're concerned the MTBE plume will float past the Dance Hall Well and pollute the city's other drinking-water wells.
"The city wants assurance from Chevron that those other wells will be treated if contaminated," Utilities Director John O'Donnell told me. But, he added, if the system is not installed, the other wells will be contaminated anyhow. The city wants to know what the plan is then.
Chevron representatives will be at Coffee Chat on March 20 to share their thoughts. Coffee Chat is at Metro Java Cafe, 32211 Camino Capistrano. Here's a map.
Here's a link to the Web site with the clean up plan, maps and more.
Then let THEM drink the water!!!
Posted by: Laura Pasqua | March 06, 2009 at 04:34 PM
When you read the report, the leak was discovered in December 1988. It is now March 2009. We sent someone to the moon and back several times within ten years. Twenty one years later, Chevron is still trying to figure out how to clean this up.
It is obvious that they are not rocket scientists.
In the meantime, we continue to pay higher water costs to import our water from the MWD. If Chevron was a standup company, twentyone years ago they would have said we have a problem, we will do what it takes to get this cleaned up and discuss the details later.
Chevron would also say, let us pay the costs for the higher imported water while we get mitigage this problem.
A recent poll in the OC Register and LA Times lists Chevron here in SJC as the highest price gasoline in Orange County.
It is time that we stop sitting on our hands while Chevron does nothing after twentyone years.
The appropriate action needs to be taken by the citizens of SJC and the City Council.
Posted by: Clint Worthington | March 06, 2009 at 06:27 PM