2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 15 Dec 2004 15:43:00 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Rialto perchlorate cleanup
 
County OKs plan to clean tainted water

By SHARON McNARY
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 15, 2004


San Bernardino County has decided to remove pollution from water bound for Rialto city utility customers, a $4.5 million project that was contested by Fontana and another water utility as premature.


Perchlorate, used in weapons stored in World War II-era bunkers on a site near today's Mid-Valley Sanitary Landfill north of Rialto, was released into area groundwater by a gravel-washing plant on county land in the 1990s. Perchlorate can interfere with thyroid function.

The perchlorate plume moved underground toward wells that supply drinking water to residents of Rialto, Colton and Fontana.

Under a state Regional Water Quality Control Board order to replace Rialto's lost water supplies by April 1, 2005, the county Board of Supervisors decided to install a treatment plant that would remove the perchlorate and then supply the treated water to Rialto.



For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_bperc15.e86a.html


-- 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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