[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto, CA fireworks company

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Defunct fireworks company ordered to pay for Rialto perchlorate testing
  	

By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 3, 2008

Water quality officials on Wednesday ordered a fireworks producer to pay 
for testing of groundwater on a 160-acre industrial site in Rialto where 
drinking-water wells have been contaminated with perchlorate.

The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a letter to 
the now-defunct Pyrotronics Corp. and its former president, Harry 
Hescox, to investigate perchlorate levels in ground water near a 
12,000-gallon concrete pond where the company dumped the contaminant 
while making Silver Sunrise, King Kong and other fireworks. Perchlorate 
is used in fireworks, munitions, rocket fuel and other explosives, and 
has been found to affect the thyroid gland in high doses.

"There's been some monitoring right around the pit. We need some further 
monitoring downstream to figure out how far things have migrated," said 
Kurt Berchtold, the regional board's assistant executive director.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_epasuit04.3d49e34.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
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