[CPEO-MEF] Rialto (CA) seeks Superfund designation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rialto seeks Superfund designation for perchlorate


By MARY BENDER
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 5, 2007

RIALTO - The city of Rialto will ask federal environmental officials to
recognize the severity of its perchlorate-contaminated groundwater and
to help clean it up.

At its meeting Tuesday night, the Rialto City Council unanimously
approved a resolution requesting the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency to add the 160-acre industrial site in northern Rialto where the
perchlorate contamination occurred to the EPA's National Priorities List.

The list details sites across the country that "pose risks to human
health and the environment," the EPA says. Over the years, 1,569 sites
have been named to the National Priorities List, most recently in
September, when seven hazardous-waste locations were added.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bpollute05.8b521f.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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