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Arizona American Water Co. could now face serious penalties on grounds of malfunction of its alarm, leading to contaminated water flowing without going through the cleaning process.

Arizona American Water Co. serves nearly 5,000 homes in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale. The trio alarm system designed to alert the employees about failure in Arizona American’s Miller Road Treatment Plant failed to work. This caused the water to flow through the taps of the residents, carrying TCE, an industrial solvent which can lead to cancer.

The worst part was that many residents there were not informed about the contamination. The Paradise Valley Town Council plans to discuss the incident during a meeting at the Town Hall.

Takata, director of Environment Protection Agency’s Superfund division disclosed that the causes are being investigated into and till then the plant will remain closed. He described the malfunction as very serious.

Arizona American Water Co. was hired by Motorola, long time back; in order to clean the water polluted by the industrial solvent released by the company which swept into the area’s groundwater aquifer. Therefore even Motorola and other three companies, involved with Motorola for dumping the solvent, will face penalties and fine.

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