Cadmus Will Aid Community Group at Superfund Site in California

(June 4, 2007) — Cadmus will provide the San Gabriel Valley Oversight Group in Alhambra, California, with technical advisory and outreach services related to activities and issues at the San Gabriel Valley Area 3 Superfund site under a new contract worth close to $50,000. The funds for the project will come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) program.

The San Gabriel Basin aquifer provides approximately 90 percent of the drinking water for more than 1 million people living in the San Gabriel Valley. Widespread pollution of groundwater by industrial chemicals—particularly volatile organic compounds  such as trichloroethene, perchloroethylene, and carbon tetrachloride—prompted EPA in 1984 to add four areas of the San Gabriel Valley to the National Priorities List (also known as the Superfund list) of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Cadmus’ work will focus on remedial activities at the Area 3 Superfund site.

This is the seventh project Cadmus has won to provide technical advisory services to TAG recipients.