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California American Water Invests $6 Million in Antelope Community Water Quality with Fox Park Well Treatment Plant
California American Water is investing $6 million to construct a new treatment plant for Antelope's Fox Park Well. The project strengthens local water infrastructure and helps ensure safe, clean, and reliable drinking water and includes advanced treatment technology to remove hexavalent chromium (CrVI). The new treatment plant helps ensure compliance with California's updated drinking water standard of 10 micrograms of CrVI per liter of water (10 parts per billion), or about 10 drops of water in
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