[CPEO-MEF] Bunker Hill Basin (CA) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Deal OK'd for water cleanup

$69 million plan: The tainted underground reservoir serves 600,000 
Inland residents.

By CHRIS RICHARD and K. FRANKE SANTOS
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 19, 2005



The federal government has signed a consent decree freeing $69 million 
to clean up San Bernardino water contamination caused by an Army 
facility during World War II.

Local water districts now are maneuvering to protect water supplies that 
they pump from the basin before the final plan goes into effect. The 
Bunker Hill Basin provides drinking water to 600,000 people in San 
Bernardino and Riverside counties, said Stacy Alstadt, deputy general 
manager of San Bernardino's city water department.

The consent decree, a roadmap for directing complex settlement 
agreements, removes major legal and financial roadblocks that could 
delay a resolution of the issue for decades.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_cwyle18.57e7f.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

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military