Water Wells

Four wells will be installed on Calle del Barco and Rambla Orienta to prevent landslides caused by ground-water saturation, according to Supervisor Deane Dana. The wells will be 100 to 130 feet deep and will include collector pipes to carry water into storm drains. Work will start in September and will be completed in October. The project will be financed by property owners through an assessment district established by the board.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager and critically injured another Saturday after a clash between Jewish settlers and Palestinians over a West Bank water well, officials said. It marks some of the worst such violence in more than a year and comes at a time of heightened tensions over Israeli settlements. Feuding between Palestinians and Jewish settlers over a spring at Iraq Burin village near the city of Nablus has occurred almost weekly. Palestinians accuse the settlers of trying to take control of the spring.

Two wells will be drilled at a total cost of $2.2 million to help lessen the city's need to buy water. Construction of the wells is scheduled to begin early next year. One well will be constructed at Boisseranc Park and the other at Larwin Park. The City Council last week approved an agreement with the Orange County Water District under which the city will borrow $1.5 million from the agency, at 3.5% interest over 15 years, to construct the wells.

Rebels in Chad freed a U.S. missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months in the central African country's remote north, his organization said. Steven Godbold, who was captured by rebels while helping a local organization transport equipment to drill water wells, was freed late Thursday, the Wheaton, Ill.-based Evangelical Alliance Mission said in a statement. Godbold, 49, was held by Chad's rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad, which suspected him of being a spy for the government.

Bowing to protests from environmentalists concerned about more development, Ventura County supervisors on Tuesday agreed to delay action on a proposal to change the county's standards for establishing new water wells in mountainous areas.

Federal officials said Thursday that the city will receive $1 million in antipollution funds to help launch the cleanup of seven municipal water wells contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. City leaders said they will use the money to pay administrative costs for overseeing the removal of the contaminate--which is used to fight smog by making gasoline burn cleaner.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency will use its enforcement powers to help Santa Monica clean up city water wells contaminated by leaking gas pipelines and underground storage tanks, city officials announced Monday. EPA officials will help determine which oil companies are responsible for chemicals that seeped into the water supply at the city's Charnock well field, forcing its closure last June.

Two public drinking water wells in Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach have been shut down because a suspected cancer-causing chemical was unknowingly injected into the local water supply, Orange County Water District officials said Wednesday. NDMA, or n-nitrosodimethylamine, is a ubiquitous chemical that occurs naturally, but also is a byproduct of chlorinating water supplies to disinfect them.

Aproposal to drill backup water wells for the city of Los Angeles in Sun Valley hit a snag in a City Council committee Tuesday and was referred to another committee for review of potential environmental problems. The city Department of Water and Power wants to drill 12 wells and build a pumping and chlorinating station on Arleta Avenue just west of the Hollywood Freeway.

The California Department of Health Services announced Thursday that it will allow drinking water wells to contain higher concentrations of a chemical previously suspected to cause cancer in animals. State health officials said they have concluded that the chemical, known as DCE, is not nearly as toxic to humans as earlier studies suggested. They said they reached that conclusion after a review of scientific literature as well as a reevaluation of DCE by the U.S.

Here is where the straws tap into the common pool of California water, where consequence begins. Here, on the backside of the Diablo Mountains, amid a landscape of bleached-out pastures, wind farms and transmission lines, the two-lane Byron Highway crosses the concrete headwaters of two canals. The first is the California Aqueduct, main artery of the State Water Project, which propels delta water on a 444-mile beeline to Southern California.

A federal inspection of three large trailer parks on the Torres Martinez reservation in Riverside County has found numerous health and safety violations, including faulty electrical systems and open sewage that threaten the health of park residents. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Indian Affairs did the inspections last August at Oasis Mobile Home Park, D & D Mobile Home Park and an unnamed park adjacent to Oasis.

FIND a place in the shade, pour yourself a tall iced tea and take the next month off. There is not much for gardeners to do in the hot July garden other than water and weed. Everything needs watering this dry year, even normally drought-resistant plants that barely got wet this last winter. And every gardener knows that weeding is never done. The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.

THE journey to the Qua Baths & Spa, in the Augustus Tower at Caesars Palace, is a quick lesson in Las Vegas' brand of Baroque. First you ascend the 44 steps of the grand staircase, and then you follow a long hallway lined with marble and Aubusson rugs, black and gilded chandeliers in blossom, past two wedding chapels and the illustrious Restaurant Guy Savoy. Only trumpeters issuing a fanfare would make the experience more complete.

By moving their workouts into a pool, people with severe arthritis can not only improve muscle strength and reduce pain but also exercise more vigorously than the American Geriatrics Society now recommends Water workouts have long been recommended for arthritis sufferers to help maintain flexibility and reduce pain and stiffness.

The Orange County Water District formally agreed Wednesday to help Southern California's largest water wholesaler store water underground in exchange for several multimillion-dollar improvements to the county's water-quality facilities. The agreement, signed during a morning ceremony at the Orange County Water District's headquarters in Fountain Valley, will allow the Metropolitan Water District, which supplies about half of Southern California roughly 2.

A new process for removing the toxic solvents TCE and PCE from San Fernando Valley drinking water wells could create tiny traces of other hazardous chemicals, according to a UCLA scientist who helped pioneer the method. The experimental process, in which ozone and hydrogen peroxide are blended with tainted water, is highly effective in converting TCE and PCE into harmless byproducts, William H.

Saying that there is no cause for concern, local officials have launched a $450,000 study of chromium contamination in water wells. "We see this as an effort to be proactive, looking for sources of contamination that affect our ground water and cleaning them up before it becomes a greater problem," said Catherine Tyrrell of the Regional Water Quality Control Board, the agency that received the grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

The discovery of high levels of the toxic chemical perchlorate on a troubled parcel in Santa Clarita may lead to the source of contamination that shut down five drinking water wells in the area, according to an official with the state Department of Toxic Substances Control. Perchlorate, a byproduct of rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems in humans, has been known to exist for years at the site, once home to a munitions factory.

Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson and Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks said Tuesday they believe the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory is the likely source of a toxin found in 17 wells in Simi Valley and one near Ahmanson Ranch. After a public hearing on the issue Monday, Jackson and Parks said all available information points to the mountaintop field lab above Simi Valley as the source of the perchlorate contamination. Perchlorate is a highly toxic chemical used in rocket fuel.