The State : Tainted Wells to Be Replaced
Several dozen east Fresno homes and an elementary school with polluted wells from a pesticide plant will get free hookups to the Fresno city water system under a plan advanced this week. At least 20 homeowners with wells contaminated by the defunct Thompson-Hayward pesticide plant, listed on the state and federal Superfund lists of high-priority toxic waste sites, and 34 other residents in the area will receive the water hookup, estimated to cost $985,025.
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