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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Los Angeles County Grand Jury
• 2014-2015
9. San Fernando Basin Aquifer Follow-Up
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Findings 5 findings
F1
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North Hollywood Operable Unit needs to be replaced. It will be replaced by the North Hollywood Operable Unit Second Interim Remedy. The completion date is as yet undetermined.
F2
Page 172
The potentially responsible parties have installed 33 groundwater monitoring wells in and around Home Depot and near the North Hollywood Operable Unit at 11845 Vose Street in North Hollywood.
F3
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power operates the North Hollywood Operable Unit. Potentially responsible parties give funds to United States Environmental Protective Agency. The agency pays the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 90 percent of North Hollywood Operable Unit’s operating costs.
F4
Page 172
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has 26 new groundwater monitoring wells—25 were constructed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and one by the United States Environmental Protective Agency. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s 25 monitoring wells have three elevations/zones (shallow, middle, and deep pipes) and the United States Environmental Protective Agency’s one monitoring well has two elevations/ zones (two pipes).
F5
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It will take many decades to clean up the contaminants in the aquifer. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s research and development lab at the La Kretz Innovation Campus’s Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator will need additional help to create new methods to clean up the groundwater.10
Recommendations 1
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R9Page 1721 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s research and development lab at the La Kretz Innovation Campus should work with the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science to request academic research into groundwater remediation in the San Fernando Basin to help speed the cleanup of the San Fernando Basin Aquifer. As described in the committee’s interview report with LADWP’s Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer. LOS ANGELES COUNTY 2014–2015 CIVIL GRAND JURY FINAL REPORT