[CPEO-MEF] Rialto water order

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rialto water order likely


By K. FRANKE SANTOS
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
September 16, 2004


The county may be ordered Friday to drill wells to help replace Rialto's 
water supply, tainted by perchlorate contamination believed to be coming 
from a county-owned landfill.

The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, which oversees local 
water quality, is expected to demand that the county clean up 
contamination suspected to be coming from the Mid-Valley Sanitary 
Landfill and threatening a key well that supplies drinking water to Rialto.

High levels of perchlorate have been found in a monitoring well 250 feet 
from a drinking-water well called Rialto No. 3, said Kurt Berchtold, 
assistant executive officer for the regional water-quality control 
board. Perchlorate has not been detected in Rialto No. 3, he said.

The order would speed construction of replacement wells, Berchtold said. 
The county would pump out contaminated water, treat it and then supply 
it to Rialto to replace water that would be lost if No. 3 were shut 
down, he said.

…

for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_bperch16.eb3d.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
http://www.cpeo.org


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