More news on Rialto cleanup funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Senate panel endorses cleanup funds

PERCHLORATE: The money would be used in the Inland effort to remove the contaminant.
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
June 23, 2004


Perchlorate clean-up efforts in the Inland area got a potential boost
Tuesday when the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed a $4
million payment to the Department of Defense for removing contamination. 

The military is among several suspected sources of the rocket-fuel
chemical that has polluted at least 20 drinking water wells that serve
Rialto, Fontana and Colton. 

It also was a primary customer of a perchlorate plant in Nevada that
polluted the lower Colorado River, another Inland drinking water source. 

The $4 million, part of the 2005 defense spending bill, would pay for
research and a demonstration of clean-up technologies in the north
Rialto area, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office. 

Specifically, the bill would provide $4 million for the Environmental
Security Technical Certification Program to conduct research and a
demonstration of clean-up technologies in the Rialto-Colton Basin, where
a seven-mile plume was discovered in 2002. The plume has contaminated 22
drinking water wells in western San Bernardino County, jeopardizing
water supplies for 500,000 local residents. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_perch23.57b8b.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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