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Dennis Ahlen, general manager of the Alhambra Utilities Department, gives a tour of the new Groundwater Treatment Plant at the dedication Thursday. WALT MANCINI/San Gabriel Valley Tribune  
Star-News  

Tapping high-tech

Alhambra officials open new water treatment plant

Saying it will secure the city's drinking water supply for the future, officials Thursday held a grand opening for a new $13.8 million treatment plant. The new facility uses a high-tech system of 14 filtration tanks, which line the inside of the plant. (Pasadena Star-News)
Two new wells are planned at Park Avenue and Winding Way. MITCHELL BROOKS/Sacramento Bee  
Bee  

Drilling on hold

Residents oppose Aerojet well to track tainted water

Plans to drill a well in Fair Oaks to monitor a plume of contaminated groundwater migrating from Aerojet's Rancho Cordova rocket-engine facility have stalled over residents' objections. (Sacramento Bee)

Retrieval of zebra mussel-encrusted Vector Averaging Current Meter near Michigan City, Ind. WIKIMEDIA  
Wikimedia  

Lethal weapon

Safe bacterium found to kill zebra mussels

Scientists say they've created an environmentally safe bacterial toxin to control invasive zebra and quagga mussels. The new bio-pesticide was derived from a common soil bacterium by researchers at the New York State Museum Field Research Laboratory. (UPI)
ALSO:
• Department of Fish and Game says don't move a mussel

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Quote of the Day
“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”
— Ogden Nash

Photo of the Week
CORAL TAYLOR, P.E.
North Tahoe Public Utility District

In the tank
A contract worker with Utility Services Co. welds repair patches over corroded areas of North Tahoe PUD's Carnelian Woods #2 tank. The rehabilitation project aims to bring the 500,000-gallon storage tank up to safety codes. Rehabilitating the existing tank rather than replacing it was done to make the best use of existing district assets and funds.
A handful of leaks have been found and repaired, and more than 300 reconstructive patches have been welded over the corroded areas.
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Born on this Day
Gore Vidal, 83; Marques Haynes, 82; Chubby Checker, 67; Lindsey Buckingham, 59; Dave Winfield, 57; Dennis Eckersley, 54; Clive Owen, 44; Gwen Stefani, 39; Ashlee Simpson, 24.

On this Day in 1995
A jury found ex-football player O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.

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