Our Towns - Orangevale - Fair Oaks News
Comments (0) |

Residents' objections stall well to track water pollution

Published: Friday, Oct. 03, 2008 | Page 2B

Plans to drill a well to monitor a plume of contaminated groundwater migrating from Aerojet's Rancho Cordova rocket-engine facility have stalled as a result of residents' objections.

"We won't be drilling in seven days," Aerojet's Timothy Murphy told the sometimes angry and loud crowd at a community meeting Wednesday night.

The meeting was to inform area residents of a planned well at Park Avenue and Winding Way. Some are critical of the well's planned location and say there was inadequate public notice of the project.

To serve as a monitoring well, the drilling site needs to be at a leading edge of the plume that has migrated under the American River and is advancing on Fair Oaks and Carmichael 250 feet underground.

The well is planned as part of Aerojet's $1.2 billion Superfund site cleanup of the rocket fuel contamination from its Rancho Cordova site.

Aerojet postponed its plans for the monitoring well in a road right of way after the residents objected.

"We will explore options. We will evaluate the sites," Murphy said of at least two nearby locations suggested by the residents.

– Ramon Coronado

Dear Readers,

Thank you for coming to sacbee.com. We welcome your participation in our commenting boards and forums, but we ask that you follow a few simple rules to keep the boards open and the discourse civil.

We reserve the right to delete comments that contain inappropriate links, obscenities or vulgarities, spam, hate speech, personal attacks, plagiarism or copyright violations. You can help notify us of potential abuses by flagging comments that you find offensive. Action will be taken against users who repeatedly or flagrantly violate the rules. Keep it clean and you should have no problems.

tool name

close
 
Sacramento Bee Job listing powered by Careerbuilder.com

Quick Job Search

View All Top Jobs
Buy
Used Cars
Dealer and private-party ads
Make:

Model:

Price Range:
to
Search within:
miles of ZIP

Advanced Search | 1982 & Older