[CPEO-MEF] Rialto perchlorate cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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


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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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