perchlorate cleanup money for Rialto area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Senate committee approves $4 million for Cal perchlorate clean-up


Associated Press (Monterey Herald, CA)
June 22, 2004

WASHINGTON - Senate appropriators on Tuesday approved $4 million to
clean up pollution in California's inland region from a toxic chemical
used in rocket fuel.

The perchlorate cleanup provision was offered by Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein and was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee as
part of a 2005 defense spending bill. The bill must go to the full
Senate for approval.

The money is to be used for cleanup in the Rialto-Colton Basin, where a
seven-mile plume of perchlorate was discovered in 2002 and has
contaminated 22 drinking water wells in western San Bernardino County,
jeopardizing water supplies for 500,000 local residents.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/8981533.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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