PG&E to stop providing bottled water in Hinkley

Published August 2, 2014 7:25pm ET



HINKLEY, Calif. (AP) — A utility is halting its program that supplied bottled water to a Mojave Desert community whose toxic chromium contamination was portrayed in the movie “Erin Brockovich.”

Pacific Gas & Electric notified residents of Hinkley on Wednesday that it would halt the program on Oct. 31 because levels of chromium-6 in local wells are now below California’s new drinking water standard of 10 parts per billion, the San Bernardino Sun (http://bit.ly/1nXBxZq ) reported.

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