[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Funding for San Gabriel Valley (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate cleanup gets boost with sweeping wilderness bill

By Rebecca Kimitch
Whittier Daily News (CA)
March 25, 2009

Clean water and wilderness advocates are celebrating congressional 
approval Wednesday of a massive natural resources bill that provides a 
$50 million boost to local efforts to rid groundwater of dangerous 
contaminants.

....

The Water Quality Authority will use the $50 million increase in federal 
funds to help remove perchlorate - a chemical in rocket fuel and 
fireworks - from the aquifer that lies below the San Gabriel Valley and 
provides drinking water to the area.

The legislation is the first step of a two-step process to get the 
federal funds. It allows federal funding to be used for the cleanup; 
lawmakers must still actually budget the funds annually.

....

The federal government has already contributed approximately $79 million 
to the cleanup effort, estimated to cost $1 billion to complete. 
Additional funds have come from the state and from the parties 
responsible for the contamination.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_11997027

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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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