[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, FORMER SITES: "California Appeals Court Revives Water Pollution Lawsuit, " Rialto, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

California Appeals Court Revives Water Pollution Lawsuit 

By Nathan Solis
Courthouse News Service
May 6, 2020

A California appellate court has revived a lawsuit Wednesday from the city of Riverside who claim Black & Decker and several other companies contaminated the local drinking water with chemicals used to make explosive cartridges, flares and rocket fuel.

Nearly a decade after the case was filed, the city was given the green light to move ahead with their case, which revolves around a 160-acre lot in the city of Rialto, about 10 miles north of Riverside.

The Rialto site was used as a storage and manufacturing operation for explosive cartridges, flares and other incendiary devices in 1952 by West Coast Loading Corporation, a subsidiary of Kwikset Locks.

Chemicals processed and stored at the site contained ammonium perchlorate and potassium perchlorate.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-appeals-court-revives-water-pollution-lawsuit/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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