Delano begins the process of removing carcinogens from the soil downtown
On Wednesday, crews began using a soil vapor extraction system to remove the pollutants from the soil under downtown Delano. … “We are also concerned that there is PCE in the top layers of the groundwater and that is also at extremely high levels, thousands of times above the state standards. So the concern is that if it does reach the municipal water supply, that’s going to be very hard to remove, and very dangerous for folks and extremely expensive,” said [Ingrid Brostrom, the assistant director for Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment].