Factoid/2008/01/24
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< Beachapedia:Factoid | 2008 | 01
Helping Improve Beach Water Quality -- Another Reason Not to Drive
- 'Every rainstorm sends a toxic soup of oil, grease, lead and other dangerous ingredients that accumulate on our roads,... Tests of some Caltrans [highway] drains have revealed contamination that qualifies as hazardous waste. "Contaminated runoff from freeways is the largest and most polluted part of overall stormwater runoff," said David Beckman, director of Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) Coastal Water Quality Project.' -- the above excerpt is from this ENS article. Also see NRDC's press release on the new agreement for modest runoff reduction from Caltrans roads.
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