[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, CONTRACTORS: Lockheed Inland Empire (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[More details than in previous posting ... LS]


Lockheed seeking cleanup costs

ROCKET ENGINES: It contends it followed federal rules for using 
chemicals at three key Inland sites.
  	

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
July 7, 2008

Lockheed Martin Corp. has filed a lawsuit asking the federal government 
to help pay for more than $100 million in groundwater cleanup costs 
associated with pollution from the company's Cold War-era operations in 
the Inland area.

The company manufactured and tested rocket engines, leaving chemical 
contamination that leached into the ground. Lockheed has spent tens of 
millions cleaning up pollution that came from its former plant east of 
Redlands nearly to Colton -- a distance of eight miles.

"We have been working with the government to recover some of these 
costs, but we haven't been able to come to an agreement," Lockheed 
Martin spokeswoman Gail Rymer said Monday.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_lockheed08.49fca2e.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>
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