[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto (CA) forensic study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Team studying source of Rialto-area water contamination gets funding


By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
September 12, 2010


Federal money will fund work by the U.S. Geological Survey to determine 
the source and movement of an underground plume of perchlorate in the 
Fontana-Rialto area that also threatens water wells serving the city of 
Riverside.

Officials with the Fontana Water Co. -- determined to find out who is 
fault for the contamination -- sought the $262,000 from a research arm 
of the Department of Defense, water company spokesman Rick Ruiz said. 
The company wants the responsible party to pay for water treatment now 
funded by district ratepayers, he said.

Water company officials and community activists say Fontana residents 
are being unfairly burdened because the city is not included in a 
cleanup plan being developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency. Last year, the EPA added a nearby 160-acre industrial area in 
Rialto, known as the Goodrich site, to its Superfund list for hazardous 
waste cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_contaminants13.2d5154e.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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