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| | Smoke on the Water - Los Angeles CityBeat |
 | | Proposition 84 promises to safeguard California’s water supply with pollution and contamination controls, provide funds for emergency drinking water supplies, protect natural watersheds and increase river and coastal protections, boost flood control infrastructure, and develop water conservation measures adding 1 million acre-feet to the drinking supply. |
 | | The greatest chunk of the bond, $1.5 billion, targets water pollution and would be appreciated in the eastern half of the San Fernando Valley, and most of the San Gabriel Valley, which are riddled with U.S. EPA Superfund priority cleanup sites, befouled by the rocket engine solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) and the rocket fuel oxidizer, perchlorate. |
 | | This is, however, the sixth water bond to course its way to voters in the last decade, totaling $11 billion and causing critics to question their efficacy. |
| www.lacitybeat.com /article.php?id=4559&IssueNum=178 (1272 words) |
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