[CPEO-BIF] South Archibald Trichloroethylene Plume, Ontario, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

WATER QUALITY: Agencies to collaborate on plume cleanup
The toxic solvent TCE is spreading underground from Ontario and puts  
Riverside Co. water at risk

BY SANDRA STOKLEY
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
May 31, 2013

Six Inland water providers have drafted an agreement to work together  
to clean up cancer-causing contamination believed to be a threat to  
wells supplying hundreds of thousands of residents.

The underground pollution, known as the South Archibald  
Trichloroethylene Plume, is concentrated in the city of Ontario, just  
south of Ontario International Airport and west of Interstate 15.

Trichloroethylene, or TCE, is an industrial solvent and degreaser.  
Known to cause cancer, TCE fell out of use in the 1980s because of  
its toxicity.

Officials believe the plume is inching in a southerly direction and  
fear it could contaminate wells pumped by the Chino Basin Desalter  
Authority, a water source for Norco, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley,  
Ontario, Chino, Chino Hills and Western Municipal Water District.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside- 
headlines-index/20130531-water-quality-agencies-to-collaborate-on- 
plume-cleanup.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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