[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, HEALTH: Rialto (CA) health study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Health probe started in Rialto water contamination


By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 2, 2009


The state is combing old water records to determine whether highly 
contaminated groundwater -- which now stretches for miles from an 
industrial site in Rialto -- caused illnesses among residents in the 
many decades before it was discovered, health officials said during a 
community meeting Wednesday night.

In 1997, three wells were found to have high levels of perchlorate, an 
ingredient in rocket fuel, and trichloroethylene, or TCE, an industrial 
solvent, which seeped into the soil and underground water. Water was not 
tested for perchlorate before then.

...

"You did get exposed. That's what we're trying to get a handle on -- how 
often and how long," Marilyn Underwood, a toxicologist with the state 
Department of Public Health, told an audience of more than two dozen 
people. "I think the good news is ... it seems like it happened for a 
fairly restricted time."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_E_perchlorate03.46f64d2.html#

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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