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East County Water Officials Move to Seize San Diego Pump Station, Escalating Dispute

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Blake Nelson

Leaders of a planned water recycling project in East County asked a court Tuesday for permission to take control of a pump station from the city of San Diego, escalating a dispute over the future of a plant that could serve hundreds of thousands of people.

Lawyers from the Advanced Water Purification Project submitted a motion in California Superior Court to seize the East Mission Gorge Pump Station.

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Skyrocketing Coronavirus Levels in California Sewage Point to Rapid Spread of Virus

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby By Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money

Sewage data analyzed in Silicon Valley wastewater treatment plants confirms that the latest wave of coronavirus infections is sharply worse than the ones in the spring and summer.

Officials in Santa Clara County have been routinely testing solid waste samples in sewage to detect levels of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 as part of a project funded by Stanford University.

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