[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto, California cleanup plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: Pump Rialto groundwater and cleanse it of perchlorate

By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 3, 2010

Federal environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a $29.3 million 
plan to clean up a Rialto Superfund site by pumping tainted groundwater 
and treating it to remove perchlorate and other toxic contaminants.

The water then could be delivered to homes and businesses.

The 160-acre industrial site north of Interstate 210, between Alder and 
Locust avenues, was used by private companies and the government to 
store, test and manufacture munitions, rocket motors and fireworks.

Perchlorate, an ingredient in rocket fuel, and the industrial solvent 
trichloroethylene, TCE, were spilled or dumped on the ground and seeped 
deep into the aquifer. Spreading for miles southeast of the site, the 
contamination is the Inland region's largest uncontrolled plume of 
perchlorate in a drinking water supply.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_cleanup04.3fed408.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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