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Chuck Rogers, Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant superintendent, walks to the top of an anaerobic digester that converts sewage waste into methane gas. JOSEPH A. GARCIA/Ventura County Star  
Star  

Stimulus push

Federal grants are sparking local green energy ideas

Chuck Rogers stepped outside the offices at the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant on a recent afternoon and was greeted by the loud, low-pitched hum of two electricity-producing engines powered by methane culled from sewage waste. “That’s the sound of renewable energy,” said Rogers, the plant’s superintendent. (Ventura County Star)
Sharp Park Golf Course, which opened in 1932, is the focus of a battle between golfers and environmentalists. LACY ATKINS/San Francisco Chronicle  
Chronicle  

Turf battle

Fight continues over fate of Sharp Park golf course

The phrase "historic landscape" conjures up visions of cobblestoned streets or revered public grounds, a la Golden Gate Park. A determined band of golfers want landmark status applied to something quite different: a golf course in Pacifica, with a highway on one side and a seawall on the other. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Paul R. Bonderson Jr. is photographed at his home in Sunol. DOUG DURAN/Contra Costa Times  
Times  

Mr. Conservation

Sunol man spends life, millions maintaining sanctuaries

Paul Bonderson was 8 and on his second hunting excursion when the experience of watching the wetlands come alive hooked him for life. The new conservation programs chairman for Ducks Unlimited has spent millions restoring habitat and protecting wildlife. (Contra Costa Times)

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“Problems are like windows. They're supposed to be looked through, not at.”
— Anonymous
courtesy of Water News reader Kevin Hemp

Photo of the Week
Inside the UV reactor at the O.C. Groundwater Replenishment System
GINA DePINTO
Orange County Water District

Replenishing the UV lamps
Joe Flint, a maintenance technician at the Orange County Water District, installs new ultraviolet lamps (Trojan UV) at Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment System. The UV system holds nine trains of reactors with a total of 4,000 high-intensity 250 watt UV lamps. The system uses microfiltration, reverse osmosis and UV with hydrogen peroxide to purify highly treated wastewater. The water is injected into a seawater barrier and piped to spreading basins to replenish the groundwater basin that serves more than 2.3 million people.
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Born on this Day
Daniel Schorr, 93; Frank Robinson, 74; Van Morrison, 64; Itzhak Perlman, 64; Richard Gere, 60; Debbie Gibson, 39; Chris Tucker, 37; Sara Ramirez, 34; Larry Fitzgerald, 26.

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Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.

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