Re: More news on Rialto cleanup funding

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Correction:

According to congressional sources the amount for the Environmental 
Security Technical Certification Program to conduct research and a 
demonstration of perchlorate clean-up technologies in the Rialto-Colton 
Basin is $5 million; not $4 million as reported earlier.

Aimee

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> Senate panel endorses cleanup funds
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> PERCHLORATE: The money would be used in the Inland effort to remove the contaminant.
> Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
> June 23, 2004
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> 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. 
>
> ...
>
> for the entire article, see
> http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_perch23.57b8b.html
>
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