[CPEO-MEF] Editorial - "Rialto takes perchlorate stand"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rialto takes perchlorate stand

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
July 28, 2007

According to the most recent Study by the Center for Disease Control, 
perchlorate in drinking water, even at low doses, is a threat to the 
thyroid function of many of U.S. women, and to brain and nervous system 
development in children. By 2002, it had become apparent that a 
6-mile-long plume of perchlorate, a key ingredient of rocket fuel, and 
trichloroethylene (TCE), a hazardous solvent phased out of industrial 
use by the 1980s, contaminates the otherwise pure groundwater aquifer 
that supplies drinking water for the city of Rialto and the Rialto 
Utility Authority.

The source is a World War II ordinance depot later used for 
manufacturing by large defense contractors and fireworks manufacturers. 
The contamination comes from land now used by San Bernardino County for 
its Mid-Valley Sanitary Landfill, to the west, and a 160-acre site to 
the east occupied by Goodrich Corporation, Emhart (Black & Decker), Pyro 
Spectaculars and other manufacturers.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/opinions/ci_6489939

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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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