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Related: About this forumHundreds of illicit oil wastewater pits found in Kern County California
Water officials in Kern County discovered that oil producers have been dumping chemical-laden wastewater into hundreds of unlined pits that are operating without proper permits.
Inspections completed this week by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board revealed the existence of more than 300 previously unidentified waste sites. The water boards review found that more than one-third of the regions active disposal pits are operating without permission.
The pits raise new water quality concerns in a region where agricultural fields sit side by side with oil fields and where Californias ongoing drought has made protecting groundwater supplies paramount.
Clay Rodgers, assistant executive officer of the water boards Fresno office, called the unregulated pits a significant problem and said the agency expects to issue as many as 200 enforcement orders.
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Hundreds of illicit oil wastewater pits found in Kern County California (Original Post)
n2doc
Feb 2015
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)1. WTF is up with these regulators?
It's not like these ponds were being camouflaged or hidden from view. There they were right out there in front of God and everybody and these dum dums just now found out about it.
If this is the best we as a society can do, we're all gonna die. Oh wait...
hatrack
(59,592 posts)2. But . . . but . . . Freedom! Invisible Hand! Marketplace Magic!
FREEDUMB!!
Nihil
(13,508 posts)3. Looks like someone's determined to eliminate the difference between ...
... produce from California and that from China ...
Take *that* TPP - no unfair competition now as we too have unregulated toxic contamination!