Downtown Bakersfield residents are taking issue with a proposal by California Water Service to build sizable filtration tanks near Mill Creek Linear Park to remove an insidious pollution from local drinking water.

The Creekview Villas Homeowners Association has led calls to redesign or relocate a pair of 26- to 30-feet-high tanks Cal Water wants to situate south of 14th Street just west of R Street near a 74-year-old water well.