Small town, perfect storm

By Barbara Wolcott

Subjects: Water quality management, Sewerage, Water, Environmental aspects, Sewage disposal, Groundwater, Water-supply, Pollution

Description: An " ... environmental public health disaster lay under a town of 12,000 people - Los Osos, California. It had already contaminated one of two aquifers serving them and the surrounding area. Now it threatened the remaining water supply. The source was not oil, nor chemicals but 5,000 septic tank sending a million gallons of effluent down drains daily ..."--Page 4 of cover