San Gabriel Valley : CONSTRUCTION DELAYED
After a year of tests, reports and meetings, the final plans for a south San Gabriel Valley water treatment plant will be delayed for at least six weeks so engineers can survey a recently proposed site for the plant, officials for the Three Valleys Municipal Water District said.
Three Valleys had planned to build a ground-water treatment facility on an eight-acre lot in Irwindale. But at a March 27 meeting, the city of Baldwin Park suggested moving the project to an 18-acre area in Baldwin Park’s manufacturing and commercial district, said Barbara Ward, a public information consultant for the water district.
The plant is designed to treat the largest body of contaminated ground water in the San Gabriel Valley, an area beneath Azusa, Irwindale and Baldwin Park.
The preferred site for the plant is still the industrially zoned property at Los Angeles Street and Alderson Avenue in Irwindale, Ward said.
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