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Polluting Oil Wastewater Facility Finally Closing After Settlement With Environmental and Community Groups
More than two years after agreeing to stop polluting groundwater near Bakersfield, Valley Water Management Company (VWMC) has announced that it has stopped dumping contaminated oil and gas wastewater at its Race Track Hills and Fee 34 facilities.
A settlement agreement announced in July 2016 between watchdog groups Association of Irritated Residents, Clean Water Fund, and Center for Environmental Health, and oil and gas wastewater disposal company, VWMC, required the company to stop discharging toxic levels of chemicals into open pits that contaminated groundwater at two of its facilities east