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Chevron
stops pumping tainted water
By VIC POLLARD, Californian Sacramento
Bureau
Thursday, April 04, 2002
ChevronTexaco Corp. has shut down wells
used to pump MTBE-tainted water
from beneath a service station in the
coastal town of Cambria while it looks for
a new place to dispose of the water.The
company had been trucking up to
10,000 gallons of the water to Kern County
each day and injecting it into oil
wells in the form of steam.It was forced
to stop that on Tuesday after a state oil
official said it was illegal without prior
authorization, so the extraction wells in
Cambria were shut down.Chevron has been
trucking the water for most of the
past year, but officials in Kern County
did not know about it until it was reported
in The Californian Sunday.Officials and
residents in Cambria, where the
pollution threatens the community water
supply, were not happy about the well
shutdown, but one official said the community
was willing to give the oil
company a little time to find a new home
for the water.As of Thursday afternoon,
Chevron officials had not found a suitable
disposal facility, said spokesman Ed
Spaulding."We think it will be a matter
of days," Spaulding said.In order to
resume hauling the water to Kern County,
the company must submit a proposal to the state's Division of Oil, Gas
and Geothermal Resources and get approval for the injection process, said
Hal Bopp, the agency's Bakersfield
representative.MTBE, methyl tertiary butyl
ether, is added to gasoline to reduce
air pollution. However, it has proved
to be a major pollution problem when
gasoline containing the chemical leaks
from underground storage tanks or gets
in lakes from boat and personal watercraft
engines.Tiny concentrations can
cause water to taste and smell bad and
it is suspected of causing cancer.In
Cambria, a "plume" of underground water
polluted with MTBE from a Chevron
service station threatens to pollute two
community water wells and a nearby
creek.Chevron, under orders from the Central
Coast Regional Water Quality
Control Board, is pumping the polluted
w ater out of the ground to keep it from
reaching the wells or creek.However, the
company hopes that hauling the water
away by tanker truck is only a temporary
solution.It has won approval from the
Central Coast water board to build a treatment
facility near the wells and
dispose of the treated water in nearby
Santa Rosa Creek.Chevron has publicly
promised to treat the water so thoroughly
that no MTBE could be detected.But
the town's water agency is not ready to
trust the oil company's word.Officials of
the Cambria Community Services district
say the regional board's order does
not require Chevron to remove all detectable
MTBE from the water, but only to
render it safe for drinking by state standards.
The standard allows up to 5 parts
of MTBE per billion parts of water.Officials
say the now-pristine creek is home
to endangered fish species and it ends
at the beach in a lagoon that is a
playground for children. In addition,
it is dry for about half the year.Officials
aren't willing to permit Chevron to introduce
any MTBE into the creek, said Greg
Fitzgerald, vice president of the district's
board."Publicly we hear that Chevron
is willing to treat to nondetect levels,
but that's not what the order says, and
that's not what Chevron has agreed to,"
Fitzgerald said."I don't want to be
distrustful of them," he added, "but we
really must insist that we have a formal
agreement that they not only treat to
nondetect levels with the current
technology, but as technology improves
in the future, they must continue to
improve the treatment."Fitzgerald also
said he is concerned about the precedent in allowing water with detectable
levels of MTBE to be dumped in a now-clean stream that has no other water
in it half the year and flows into a marine sanctuary. "I'm thinking if
you can get away with that here, you can do it
anywhere," he said.The regional water
board's order did not require complete
removal of MTBE because it could not legally
require the company to adhere to
standards stricter than those applied
to similar situatio ns, said Sheila
Soderberg, an engineering geologist with
the board."The state as a regulatory
agency has to go with enforceable guidelines,"
she said.Why can't the board
and the oil company agree to amend the
order to require complete removal of
the chemical?"That's the point of their
lawsuit and I can't really go into it,"
Soderberg said.Chevron's Spaulding was
equally noncommittal."I have not seen that request," he said, "and I have
no reaction to it."
source: Bakersfield Californian
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