The EPA recently announced a consent decree with the operators of the Oasis Mobile Home Park in California to resolve violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The consent decree requires the park’s operators to upgrade its drinking water and wastewater systems and pay a $50,000 penalty. … The mobile home park is located within the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Tribal Reservation boundaries in Thermal, California, which is in the Eastern Coachella Valley. With an estimated population of 1,000 people, it’s the valley’s largest mobile home park, primarily serving agricultural workers, according to the EPA. “While situated on Tribal land, the public water and wastewater systems at Oasis operate independently from Tribal control or ownership,” the EPA release notes. “The Park’s drinking water system uses groundwater that has high levels of naturally occurring arsenic.” 

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