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Feinstein asks U.S. for cleanup help
INLAND: She says toxic groundwater may have begun with Army sites in 
north Rialto in the 1940s.
12/04/2002
By SHARON McNARY
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called on two federal agencies to help pay for 
the cleanup of perchlorate-contaminated groundwater because it may have 
originated from old Army and defense sites in north Rialto.

Feinstein this week wrote letters to Secretary of Defense Donald 
Rumsfeld and to Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency.

She asked Rumsfeld for money from the Formerly Used Defense Sites 
program. She said the Department of Defense "bears a special 
responsibility" because U.S. Army and defense contractors used the land 
in north Rialto where the contamination is concentrated.

She asked Whitman to assist communities whose drinking wells have been 
contaminated. Four water utilities serving Fontana, Rialto, Colton and 
unincorporated areas of the county have shut or restricted use of 20 
wells.

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