Uranium, nitrate pollute drinking water in homes near Tuolumne River. From what?
Lined up alongside many of the homes inside the Riverview Mobile Home Estates are five-gallon jugs of water, some full, some empty. They started piling up in November 2022 when many of the around 250 residents of the Hughson-area park became eligible to receive free state-funded water. The mobile home park, previously known as Pinewood Meadows, is considered a severely disadvantaged community located near Fox Grove Park, between a walnut orchard, a honey farm and a defunct landfill. …The tap water at the park comes from two wells; one regularly exceeds safe water standards for both uranium and nitrate. … Nitrate is one of the most prevalent groundwater issues in Stanislaus County, mostly associated with agricultural runoff from fertilizer, manure and sewage from septic tanks.
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