[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, VOCs, CONTRACTORS: Rialto (CA) site on Superfund list

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U.S. EPA Region 9
News Release
September 23, 2009

B.F Goodrich site added to U.S. EPA's Superfund list

Groundwater contamination affects Rialto, Colton

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the 
B.F. Goodrich site in western San Bernardino County, Calif. to the 
Superfund National Priorities List, the federal program that cleans up 
the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.

Since the 1940’s, the B.F. Goodrich site has been used to store, test 
and manufacture munitions, rocket motors, and pyrotechnics by the 
government and businesses. The area's groundwater is contaminated with 
trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchlorate, forcing the closure of public 
drinking water supply wells in the communities of Rialto and Colton.

"Adding B.F. Goodrich to the Superfund list gives the EPA the needed 
tools to clean up the site," said Keith Takata, Director of the EPA's 
regional Superfund program. "The EPA is committed to making sure that 
the cost of cleanup is borne by those responsible for the contamination."

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For the entire article, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/de0d3a30396ef97d8525763a006d2e9e?OpenDocument

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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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