Feds to fund San Bernadino cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Polluted Inland water site to get U.S. cleanup funds

By KAREN GAUDETTE
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 14, 2004

SAN BERNARDINO - The city of San Bernardino will receive $69 million
from the federal government to clean up drinking water supplies
contaminated by chemicals the city claims were left by a World War
II-era Army supply camp. 

The settlement, announced Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, will fund the city's cleanup efforts over the next 50 years at
the Newmark Groundwater Contamination Superfund site. 

"The residents of San Bernardino are now guaranteed an adequate revenue
stream to clean the groundwater contamination that was caused by the
Department of the Army so many years ago," said City Councilwoman Susan
Lien Longville, who lauded the water department's legal team for what
she called "a gigantic success." 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_water14.5880c.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>
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