[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto (CA) site to Superfund?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State official wants to add Rialto perchlorate site to federal Superfund 
list



By JENNIFER BOWLES
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
May 5, 2008

California's top environmental official supports designating as a 
federal Superfund site a 160-acre industrial plot in Rialto believed to 
be the source of the Inland region's largest unabated plume of 
perchlorate pollution.

A designation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would make the 
site eligible for clean-up funds. Several defense contractors and 
fireworks companies that used the land dating back more than 60 years 
are believed to have dumped perchlorate, an ingredient of rocket fuel, 
on the ground.

...

Linda Adams, California's environmental protection secretary, wrote in a 
May 2 letter to the U.S. EPA that her one caveat in making it a 
Superfund site is whether negotiations with three companies that 
allegedly caused some of the pollution yield a comprehensive clean up. 
If successful, there would be no need for the Superfund designation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_C_perch06.41589f0.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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