In the North Hollywood area, EPA signed a $2.2m deal with Honeywell International and Lockheed Martin for design work of expanded cleanup system to treat contaminated groundwater.
The cleanup system will capture and treat the most highly contaminated groundwater in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando basin and prevent degradation of water quality at the water supply wells operated by the City of Los Angeles.
Once the design work starts, EPA will sign an agreement with a group of companies to construct and operate this long-term remedy that provides clean drinking water to the city.
EPA settled with Goodrich Corp, ITT Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp, and PRC DeSoto International, to invest an estimated $1m for investigation of chromium contamination in groundwater in the Glendale area.
In addition to performing work, the companies will pay EPA $750,000 in partial settlement of their share of EPA’s past costs, and this money will be used to fund additional work on the chromium groundwater investigation and cleanup.
EPA Pacific Southwest regional office Superfund Division director Jane Diamond said that in addition to cleaning up groundwater for use as drinking water, EPA is making sure those responsible for the contamination pay their fair share of the cleanup costs, leveraging the taxpayer’s dollars to conduct further cleanups.
