Norco community seeks Superfund status for Wyle site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Superfund listing sought

NORCO: Health concerns need to be addressed and getting that status
could help, backers say.

By BONNIE STEWART 
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 10, 2004

The Wyle Labs Community Advisory Group asked Norco residents Monday to
lobby their legislators so that the hazardous test site would be added
to the federal Superfund list. 

"We have to get it on the Superfund list to get our health concerns
addressed," the group's chairwoman, Jeanne Guertin, told a group of
about 45 people. 

Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that soil
and groundwater pollution on Wyle Lab's 428 acres was serious enough to
rank it among the nation's most toxic sites on its Superfund list. 

The agency, however, declined to add the Wyle property to the list
because the state is overseeing its cleanup. 

The EPA's yearlong investigation uncovered high levels of pesticides,
heavy metals, the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate and an industrial
solvent known as TCE in the soil and the groundwater. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_wyle10.a0ecd.html



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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
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