Butte County – and specifically the Paradise community, where wildfires last year killed more than 80 residents – has received more than $3 million in federal funding to help improve and rebuild sewage and wastewater facilities.
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Water still contaminated nearly one year after Camp Fire in Paradise, California
After the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, last year, scientists found that burned plastics in some water lines had released high levels of cancer-causing benzenes. Those toxic agents are still in Paradise’s water, they now say.
California’s water systems to receive $1.3 billion
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that secures $1.3 billion to help water systems deliver safe drinking water to more than a million residents.
Northern California rural communities losing affordable housing
California’s chronic housing shortage is not only an urban problem. As more residents flee the cities in search of affordable housing, rising housing prices and stagnant wages follow them.
California’s Kern County lags in affordable housing
California lawmakers say that Kern County, in the rural Central Valley, is failing to build enough housing. The lawmakers base their conclusion on a California Department of Housing and Community Development report, which cites that all of Kern’s 11 cities and the county itself, are failing to meet state housing construction requirements.