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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
FOR RELEASE MARCH 7, 1990
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present officials of the
city of Pasadena with checks totaling $1.125 million March 7, in
connection with the contamination of four water wells in the
nearby NASA facility.
The amount will help pay the city's past costs incurred by
the contamination of four wells and is a first payment toward
installation of a temporary treatment plant to decontaminate the
water from those wells.
It is part of a total of more than $3 million JPL will pay
the city over three years under terms of a recently negotiated
agreement.
Contamination by volatile organic chemicals was found in the
city's water wells in the early 1980s. The city has taken the
position that JPL was the source of the contamination, believed
to have occurred during the 1940s and 1950s as the result of the
disposition of solvents and other cleaning materials while JPL
was a U.S. Army ballistic missile facility.
JPL has not accepted liability for the contamination but has
worked with the city to build an appropriate plant and has agreed
to contribute significantly to its costs.
The temporary treatment plant should deal with the
contamination problem for at least the next three to five yearsand negotiations concerning a long term solution will be
postponed until the temporary plant has been demonstrated.
This plan will give Pasadena and JPL time to learn more
about the contamination and JPL's responsibility and will avoid
having to design a permanent plant while the problems are not yet
fully understood.
The agreement for the treatment plant is the successful
culmination of negotiations between the City of Pasadena and JPL
and it will permit the affected wells to be returned to service
and supply safe water to the community.
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