[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: EPA settles with Rialto (CA) fireworks manufacturer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RIALTO: $11 million perchlorate settlement reached

by Janet Zimmerman
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
January 31, 2014

An $11 million settlement was reached today, Jan. 31, between the  
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the estate of a former  
fireworks manufacturer at a Rialto industrial site where toxic  
chemicals leached into the groundwater.

The area was formerly known as the B.F. Goodrich Superfund site. The  
origin of the contamination is a 160-acre industrial parcel north of  
Interstate 210, between Alder and Locust avenues in Rialto. Beginning  
in the 1940s, chemicals were dumped on the ground or burned in pits.  
Over the years, the contamination made its way into underground water  
supplies.

It wasn't until 1997, when testing became available to detect low  
levels of perchlorate - an ingredient in explosives - that water  
districts discovered the pollution.

Friday's settlement is with the estate of Harry Hescox, late  
president of the now-defunct  Pyrotronics, which manufactured  
fireworks at the site, EPA officials said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.pe.com/environment/2014/01/31/rialto-11-million- 
perchlorate-settlement-reached/

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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
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