Local News in Brief : Firm Stays on Sewer Line
Arrowhead Industrial Water has offered to pay a $1-million bond to remain connected to Los Angeles sewers temporarily, and the city Board of Public Works has accepted the offer.
The city had revoked Arrowhead’s permit to dump in the sewers after charging the firm with repeated discharges of caustic wastes and acids. It is illegal to dump hazardous materials in the sewers, which eventually leave their waste in Santa Monica Bay.
A Superior Court judge last month blocked the city from disconnecting Arrowhead’s sewer service pending a hearing June 23. The $1-million bond was suggested by Arrowhead as promise that further violations will not occur before the hearing.
Arrowhead treats waste water from other industries at a plant south of downtown Los Angeles.
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