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Water woes to stay awhile <br /> Cleanup won't start till '95, <br /> Tracy depot says <br /> By Art Lozano "I'm just trying to figure out how you <br /> can speed this up," Banta farmer Jim Ed- <br /> The Stockton Record wards said. Officials responded they are <br /> TRACY — Neighbors of the Defense moving as quickly and efficiently as possi- <br /> Department's Tracy depot collectively ble. <br /> gasped when told Thursday an effort to <br /> cleanse a slowly growing Plume of con- Depot officials called the hearing t ay <br /> laminated groundwater would not begin out plans solventspump <br /> outwater <br /> leaked into <br /> mi- <br /> in earnest until 1995 and it may take 30 ated and over the years. <br /> years before it's completed. plan is to re- <br /> About 40 Banta and rural Tracy rest- The $9.5 million cleanup p <br /> dents concerned about contaminated thene by pumping the contaminatmove trichloroethene and ed wa- <br /> drinking water under and near the depot <br /> packed he uurrged depot officials,rconsul- through the wateracy Li- ter through a , tseparating lthescair <br /> on- <br /> brary. <br /> tants and representatives of several envi- taminants, which are then trapped th a <br /> ronment it agencies to begin the job tnjebcotedbackinton filter. etheeground.ater is then <br /> sooner and complete it faster. <br />