Founded in 1869, Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, California and is the county seat and a city of about 353,184 people [1]. Santa Ana is located in Southern California on the Santa Ana River, ten miles (16 km) away from the California coast. Santa Ana is part of the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan area which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is the second largest metropolitan area in the United States with almost thirteen million people. The Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) runs through the city, and the Costa Mesa Freeway (55 Freeway) and Garden Grove Freeway (22 Freeway) travel along its edges. Santa Ana is home to two Fortune 500 companies, including Ingram Micro, and First American Corp. Santa Ana is also home to the famous guitar manufacturer, Rickenbacker International Corporation. It is today best known for its large and diverse Hispanic population, now comprising about 80% of what was once a virtually all-caucasian city. Santa Ana also has the largest Spanish-speaking population per capita for a city its size in the United States.
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An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2003 shows that customers of City of Santa Ana drank water containing up to 20 pollutants, including 5 unregulated contaminants. City of Santa Ana is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.
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