State public health authorities are considering new rules that could dramatically tighten standards for exposure to the carcinogen chromium 6 in drinking water. But in Hinkley, a Mojave Desert community whose name has become synonymous with chromium 6 contamination, traces of the heavy metal continue to spread through the aquifer.
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