[CPEO-MEF] Rialto perchlorate plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate deal OK'd

Nikki Cobb
San Bernardino County Sun (CA)
September 8, 2005

RIALTO - City leaders have approved a county plan to staunch the plume 
of toxic perchlorate seeping toward the city's water supply.

Perchlorate, an ingredient in munitions, fireworks and rocket fuel 
thought to cause thyroid malfunction, is oozing through underground 
waterways from county-owned land, where it originated, toward Rialto's 
Well No. 3.

The city has filed lawsuits against San Bernardino County, the Defense 
Department and about 40 defense contractors over perchlorate 
contamination of the ground.

Peter Fox, Rialto water superintendent, said that of all the parties 
held to be responsible for the contamination, the county has been the 
most responsive.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.sbsun.com/news/ci_3012651

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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