[CPEO-MEF] Rialto (CA) perchlorate protest

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pickets demand groundwater cleanup

PERCHLORATE: A firm that did rocket testing 45 years ago is accused of 
downplaying health risks.


Massiel LadróN De Guevara
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 1, 2006


About 20 Rialto residents, a city councilman and representatives of 
nonprofit organizations gathered with signs in front of the Goodrich 
Corp. facility in Riverside on Friday, demanding that the corporation 
clean up perchlorate contamination in groundwater.

The protestors claimed Goodrich and other corporations have funded 
extensive efforts to downplay the health risks associated with 
perchlorate and have refused to clean up groundwater they polluted with 
the chemical.

"Goodrich has denied they had a plant where they tested rockets in 
Rialto. Yet several years ago, under one of our schools, a rocket 
manufactured in Rialto around 1960 with Goodrich's name on it was 
found," said City Councilman Ed Scott.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bprotest02.677138.html
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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