[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate found in another Rialto (CA) well

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials discover another tainted well

RIALTO: The site near the city's airport is one of 21 
perchlorate-contaminated wells in area cities.

By JENNIFER BOWLES
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
April 16, 2005

A rocket-fuel chemical that has fouled drinking water supplies for some 
250,000 people in the San Bernardino Valley has tainted another well 
owned by Rialto, water-quality officials said Friday.

The recent discovery brings to 21 the number of wells in Rialto, Colton 
and Fontana that have been contaminated by an underground plume of 
perchlorate stretching some 7 miles from an industrial site, said Kurt 
Berchtold, assistant executive officer of the Santa Ana Regional Water 
Quality Board.

"It's extremely frustrating," said Rialto Councilman Ed Scott. Six of 
the city's 13 wells are contaminated.

Tests in late March showed levels of perchlorate at 7.4 parts per 
billion in a well near the city's airport, Robert Holub, a supervising 
engineer, told regional water board members at a meeting Friday in Loma 
Linda.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/digitalextra/environment/perchlorate/vt_stories/PE_News_Local_D_perch16.58dbb.html


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