[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto/Colton (CA) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Colton, Rialto settle perchlorate suit

By ZEKE MINAYA
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
March 27, 2008

A settlement has been finalized in the lawsuits by Rialto and Colton 
against San Bernardino County over contamination of the cities' 
groundwater by a chemical found in rocket fuel and fireworks, 
authorities said Thursday.

A six-mile-long plume of perchlorate has tainted the Rialto-Colton 
aquifer, which feeds more than a dozen drinking wells that serve the two 
cities. The chemical has been linked to thyroid ailments.

San Bernardino County has spent more than $8 million on cleanup near the 
Mid-Valley landfill, the area the lawsuits cite as the suspected source 
of the contamination, according a county news release.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bsettle28.414994a.html

See also

County to pay for cleanup

Joe Nelson and Jason Pesick
San Bernardino Sun (CA)
February 27, 2008

The county and the cities of Rialto and Colton have agreed to settle 
lawsuits related to perchlorate contamination of the Rialto-Colton 
Basin, county officials announced Thursday.

The county has agreed to treat and contain contamination in the western 
portion of the basin and pay $4 million to Rialto and $1 million to 
Colton, according to a news release issued today from Fifth District 
County Supervisor Josie Gonzales' office.

"My main focus has always been the perchlorate contamination cleanup," 
Gonzales said in the news release. "This settlement will serve as a 
catalyst for the other key defendants in these lawsuits to focus on 
their efforts to resolve the groundwater pollution in the Rialto-Colton 
Basin."

In exchange, Rialto and Colton will dismiss all perchlorate 
contamination claims against the county, as well as claims against 
Robertson's Ready Mix Inc. and the Schulz parties.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_8723953

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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
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