[CPEO-MEF] Rialto (CA) perchlorate - two articles

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rialto water study urged
Contaminant stirs concern

Jason Pesick, Staff Writer
San Bernardino County Sun (CA)
August 5, 2007

RIALTO - Marene Deischer is convinced perchlorate in the city's drinking 
water is responsible for her son's health problems.

Jerry Deischer's thyroid gland doesn't function. He has to be given 
testosterone, artificial growth hormones and drugs that boost his weak 
immune system.

He uses a wheelchair, wears supportive gear, has mild mental 
retardation, hearing loss and, at 22, can't speak.

Marene's two older children who were born in Los Angeles County have no 
major health problems.

But she lived in Rialto while pregnant with Jerry and another baby who 
died after living only nine days.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6548094



See also
Rialto ready for showdown on perchlorate

Editorial
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
August 5, 2007

Rialto, site of some of the worst perchlorate contamination in the 
country, faces a critical battle later this month in its years-long 
fight to get rid of the pollutant, and to have the polluters pay for the 
aggravation.

At a state water board hearing in Rialto, to begin Aug. 21 and take six 
days, the city hopes to achieve results and win cleanup and abatement 
orders that have eluded it for years.

After finding little relief at either the federal or regional level, 
when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held back and the Santa 
Ana Regional Water Quality Control board faltered, the city now has its 
sights set on the state hearing, where the state Water Resource Control 
Board is prosecuting three of the alleged corporate polluters. They are 
accused of indiscriminately dumping perchlorate, the main ingredient in 
rocket fuel and other explosives, where it would seep into the 
groundwater and then not doing anything about it.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/opinions/ci_6545804

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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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