[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto wants study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Councilman urges bill to study perchlorate

By BEN GOAD
Riverside Press Enterprise (CA)
September 22, 2009


WASHINGTON - Congressional action is needed to initiate a federal study 
of water contamination in the Rialto-Colton water basin, a Rialto 
official told lawmakers Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power, Councilman 
Ed Scott spoke in support of a bill requiring the U.S. Geological Survey 
to conduct the $2.4 million study, which is stalled by funding problems.

"The dilemma we face today is the plume of contamination continues to 
move southeasterly at a high rate of speed -- possibly two feet per day 
towards the county of Riverside and, eventually, Orange County," Scott 
said. "This frightening possibility could affect the water source for 
hundreds of thousands of people."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_water23.3822232.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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