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A Superfund site in Davis has become the first federal groundwater cleanup project powered by solar energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
EPA officials on Wednesday unveiled the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site's new solar photovoltaic system, which will help power the treatment of contaminated groundwater beneath the east Davis neighborhood.
Environmental Protection Agency officials switched on a new underground heating system Wednesday to expedite the toxic cleanup at the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site in Davis.
Electric probes inserted into the soil of the 5-acre cleanup area at 3901 Second St. will vaporize contaminated water and the gas will be treated on-site. Cleanup at the 5-acre area will be complete in two years, said EPA Project Manager Bonnie Arthur, who led a media tour of the site Wednesday afternoon.
After voting against President Barack Obama's budget for the 2011 fiscal year last week, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), held a meeting about the country's fiscal future in the Board of Supervisors' chambers in the Lake County Courthouse Tuesday.
Sixty people gathered in the chambers for the nearly two-hour meeting, which is the first of three meetings Thompson will be holding throughout his district, California's 1st congressional district, which includes Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties and parts of Napa, Sonoma and Yolo counties.
Congressman Mike Thompson hosted the nearly two-hour-long session - nearly a half-hour longer than originally anticipated due to the numerous questions posed by community members - in the Board of Supervisors' chambers.
About 50 people - including Supervisor Jim Comstock, county Superintendent of Schools Wally Holbrook and County Administrative Office Kelly Cox - attended.
On Saturday, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways & Means, voted against House passage of H.R. 1, the continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2011.
While the continuing resolution does include some meaningful cuts to wasteful spending, it also includes irresponsible cuts that would hurt working families in Northern California and across our country.
Matsuda, along with a team of officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, toured the bay for the first time since the government awarded the area a $275,000 grant. The money will allow for an analysis of the area's economic strengths, with the hope that a marine highway service will be created to better the county.
Thompson and Rosemarie Fernandez, U.S. Postal Service district manager out of San Francisco, will dedicate the Eureka Main Post Office in the name of Sacco at the ceremony to begin at 2 p.m. at 337 West Clark St. Also attending will be former Eureka City Council member Tom McMurray Jr. and Sam Sacco Jr.
The Republican spending plan, known as House Resolution 1, is a continuing resolution designed to keep the federal government funded through the end of the current fiscal year in lieu of a new budget.
Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena says hundreds of health care workers could lose jobs, meaning tens of thousands of lower-income people would lose access to care.
Rep. Zoe Lofgrenâ€"whose district includes Silicon Valleyâ€"said Thursday in a conference call with reporters that many of the cuts will hit "those who can least afford it."
The proposal, officially dubbed House Resolution 1, the continuing resolution, would strip funding for important state water initiatives, including federal regulations protecting salmon, and would have “catastrophic” economic impacts on Thompson's 1st District, the congressman said in a press release.