Residents Told Water Is Contaminated by TCE
From Times Wire Reports
Residents of a south Chico neighborhood have been told to drink bottled water and avoid taking showers after county health officials determined their groundwater was contaminated.
Butte County Environmental Health officials tested 40 wells in the area, finding traces of TCE, a solvent used in industry, in 25 of them. In nine of the wells, the TCE level exceeded state and federal safety standards.
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