The State : Funds Sought for Cleanup
The Reagan Administration has asked Congress for $12.6 million to begin cleanup of the selenium-tainted Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley. The toxin has been blamed for bird deaths and deformities at Kesterson’s holding ponds in western Merced County. Selenium and other pollutants flow into Kesterson with agricultural drain water from western Fresno County. The Interior Department and farmers have agreed to halt flows to Kesterson’s ponds by mid-1986 and find alternate means of disposing of the waste water.
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