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San Diego County leaders are not ready to give up the fight to have the Tijuana River Valley investigated as a potential Superfund site.
After a unanimous vote on Sept. 30, the county’s Board of Supervisors will ask for $1.4 million from the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board to test for and assess the extent of ground pollution related to the decades-long .
The goal of the study is to convince the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to declare the river valley a Superfund site. In January, the EPA the area, saying there was insufficient evidence of its need.
At the time, Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, , said she wasn’t ready to give up, and that the EPA based its decision on limited data that was more than six years old.
Now, Lawson-Remer is trying again. She and Supervisor Palo
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