California Health and Safety Code

§ 25208.1

HSC § 25208.1Div. 20 · Ch. 6.5 · Art. 9.5

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares as follows:

(a)Discharges of liquid hazardous wastes or hazardous wastes containing free liquids into lined or unlined ponds, pits, and lagoons pose a serious threat to the quality of the waters of the state.

(b)Recent reports indicate that hazardous waste contamination from surface impoundments is migrating to domestic drinking water supplies and threatening the continued beneficial uses of the state’s ground and surface waters, air, and environment.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1543, Sec. 2.