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Past, Present Hinkley Residents Attend Chromium 6 Meeting – Past and present Hinkley residents, about 300 of them, packed into the Hinkley School gymnasium for a hearing regarding Pacific Gas & Electric’s proposed cleanup for the chromium 6 plume underneath the town. The meeting was hosted by the Lahontan Water Quality Control Board.
Previous reports had said that the proposed cleanup may take as long as 150 years to get the Chromium 6 plume to a normal level. Also at the meeting was Erin Brockavich, who listened to the concerns of residents.
Needless to say, many residents were angry and protested it at the meeting. In one report from the Desert Dispatch, residents said that the presentations did not help in informing the residents because they were “too scientific.”
TOO SCIENTIFIC!!!
I know she probably meant that the presenters should have dumbed down the language for laymen, but still it’s pretty simple what the plan is. The plan is to use ethanol to convert the Chromium 6 into the less harmful Chromium 3, and add water to dilute it all so that Chromium 6 levels will eventually return to normal.
Here’s an unscientific thought. Move out of Hinkley! Or at least move away from the part of Hinkley that is being tainted by the Chromium 6 plume. No matter how you look at it, it’s a loss. Sometimes life deals you a bad hand, and occasionally it’s impossible to bluff your way out of it.
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I think there’s a few factors. First of all, Barstow is far [...]
Hinkley’s Chromium Plume Gets Bigger – It’s the same issue that made the small town famous from the movie ‘Erin Brockavich’, starring Julia Roberts.
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