Small town, perfect storm
Subtitle: the Los Osos sewer saga
By: Barbara Wolcott
Publisher: Central Coast Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Luis Obispo, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781930401754
Subjects: Water quality management; Water-supply; Water; Pollution; Groundwater; Sewage disposal; Sewerage; Environmental aspects
Other titles: Los Osos sewer saga
Description: An " ... environmental public health disaster lay under a town of 12,000 people - Los Osos, California. It had already contaminated one of two aquifers serving them and the surrounding area. Now it threatened the remaining water supply. The source was not oil, nor chemicals but 5,000 septic tank sending a million gallons of effluent down drains daily ..."--Page 4 of cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250).