[CPEO-MEF] Camp Ono consent decree

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge grants money for clean up of Army facility


By CHRIS RICHARD
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
March 15, 2005


LOS ANGELES - A federal judge approved a consent decree Monday that 
grants San Bernardino officials $69 million to clean up water 
contamination caused by an Army tent-cleaning facility during World War II.

San Bernardino will receive the money in about 90 days. The consent 
decree dictates how city officials will spend a one-time payout, which 
comes from a Justice Department fund used to pay legal claims against 
the government, over the next 50 years.

Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer granted an approval after a 10-minute hearing 
in her Los Angeles courtroom, ending a decade of legal maneuvering.

"This has been a very long road," said Stacey Aldstadt, deputy general 
manager of San Bernardino's city water department, after the hearing. 
"We're just grateful to be here, although there's still a long road ahead."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bhearing15.5810f.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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