The State - News from Sept. 4, 1989
Toxic chemicals found within half a mile of Anderson Reservoir outside San Jose, which provides water for one-fourth of Santa Clara County, will be cleaned up at a cost of $20 million by United Technologies Corp., a rocket-motor company. The firm was ordered last January to clean up the area by October, 1990, after the solvents trichloroethylene, or TCE, trichloroethane and freon were found in the ground near the company’s facility. The sites had been used to dispose of toxic chemicals for three decades before dumping was banned. The reservoir supplies drinking water for 300,000 people.
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