[CPEO-MEF] Possible perchlorate money for Santa Ana Watershed (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House authorizes $50 million for perchlorate cleanup in SoCal

Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
April 12, 2005

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved spending
$50 million to clean up groundwater tainted by perchlorate in the Santa
Ana watershed.

There have been 186 perchlorate detections in areas served by the
watershed, which include portions of Orange, Riverside and San
Bernardino counties, according to the office of Rep. Joe Baca, D-San
Bernardino, who authored the legislation.

"The economic costs of providing safe drinking water are becoming more
and more of a burden on our communities," Baca said in a statement. "By
most accounts, perchlorate in water comes from a federal source. We must
reverse the trend where innocent hardworking families pay for a
federally-created problem that no one will take responsibility for."

Baca's bill, which passed on voice vote, still requires Senate approval
before it could become law. It also passed the House last year but did
not make it through the Senate before the end of the last congressional session.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/11377068.htm

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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