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S.). tackles MTBE <br /> leak <br /> near Manteca homes <br /> By Steve Hartsoe About a dozen homes <br /> Manteca Bureau Chief <br /> are relying on water <br /> MANTECA — The yellowish, tanks, because a well <br /> 6-foot torpedolike tubes belted system is tainted by <br /> together in pairs have become gasoline additives. <br /> part of the landscape on resi- <br /> dential properties along North _ <br /> Airport Way, just north of West r ¢ 99 <br /> Yosemite Avenue. <br /> Resident Trevia Oliver doesn't 'a E <br /> N <br /> mind them at all. At least now YOsem�te A�. <br /> N <br /> she doesn't have to fear a poten- 2 ❑ O <br /> tially cancerous chemical in her 120 °moi <br /> water,she says. <br /> "It's alright with me. I don't F—FI0DEI <br /> have no complaints." xnnn <br /> Oliver lives at one of 11 resi- " " MANTECA <br /> dences here with wells hooked Record <br /> up to the water-treatment Sys- section and <br /> of Yosemite Avenue a <br /> tem the county is using to help ort of , authorities in 1998 <br /> nd <br /> prevent the gasoline additive discovered what has been <br /> MTBE from entering domestic <br /> water supplies. dubbed the largest MTBE well- <br /> Just to the south, at the inter- Please see MTBE,B4 <br /> J <br />