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SAFER WATER IN LATHROP 09 'www.mantecabulletin.com/archives/50805/ <br /> Customer Service Advertise About Us Contact Us <br /> Log In I Subscribe I Register <br /> Search Archives <br /> NEWS COMMUNITY DINING GUIDE CLASSIFIEDS SUBSCRIPTIONS ADVERTISING COMMERCIAL PRINTING <br /> NEWS SPORTS BUSINESS I OBITS I OPINION I HOME SCENE I LIVING IN 209 I MULTIMEDIA I FEATURED EDITIONS I MOVIES I REGIONAL <br /> �. Lift up <br /> her voice. <br /> r - <br /> Home > NEWS > SAFER WATER IN LATHROP <br /> rn7 PRINT 0 E-MAIL STORY �✓'NEWSLETTER SIGN UP Text Size: Small Large Medium <br /> SAFER WATER IN LATHROP <br /> $13.5 million arsenic filtering plant goes on-line <br /> By Jason Campbell <br /> jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com <br /> 209-249-3544 Q <br /> POSTED August 16,2012 12:53I i4k, <br /> - a.m. <br /> Twee <br /> LATHROP Purchasing a 12-acre parcel along <br /> Louise Avenue that at one time housed an Army Krista M6 <br /> ilk: i Surplus outfit turned out to be a homerun for the click her <br /> City of Lathrop. <br /> Almost five years ago the city negotiated the <br /> r purchase of the property for$2.25 million—less broutt <br /> toyou <br /> g+ _ than half of the original $5 million that the owner <br /> Mary Grace Houlihan—Lathrop's Principal Engineer—shows some was initially seeking when it first went onto the <br /> of the electrical paneling in the city's new$13.5 million water market—with the hopes of using it as a <br /> treatment facility on Louise Avenue. Located on the eastern edge of centralized facility for a future system that would <br /> filter out arsenic from the city's drinking water. _ <br /> 1 of 1 View Larger <br /> And just over a month ago the$13.5 million state- (� � <br /> of-the-art system went on-line—with all of the <br /> funding coming from either a low-interest loan W' <br /> from the State of California or facilities fees <br /> generated by the issuing of building permits. <br /> Meeting necessary compliance deadlines set by <br /> the Federal government, said Interim City <br /> Manager and Public Works Director Stephen <br /> Salvatore, was the driving force behind the <br /> undertaking. <br /> "Roughly 70 to 75 percent of the city's water is <br /> groundwater, so those levels had to come into <br /> compliance—we really had no choice," Salvatore <br />