Water Officials Threaten Southland Polluters With Fines
POSTED: 6:12 am PST March 4,
2008
UPDATED: 8:17 am PST March 4,
2008
LOS ANGELES -- Violation notices were sent out Tuesday morning to 20 Los Angeles-area cities and the county threatening them with tens of thousands of dollars in daily fines for repeatedly polluting Santa Monica Bay.Video: Robert Kovacik Reports The move is the culmination of a decades-long effort to clean up the area's bacteria pollution.
In 2006, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board finally voted to start fining cities $10,000 a day if the water at their beaches does not meet clean-water standards. The city of Santa Monica was one of the top violators, with 795 instances in which bacteria levels were too high. The notice required the city to provide a variety of information including the cause of the violations, the results of investigations into the source of the bacteria and the city's plan to clean up the problem.
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