2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 16 Sep 2004 22:46:45 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Rialto water order
 
Rialto water order likely


By K. FRANKE SANTOS Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA) September 16, 2004


The county may be ordered Friday to drill wells to help replace Rialto's water supply, tainted by perchlorate contamination believed to be coming from a county-owned landfill.


The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, which oversees local water quality, is expected to demand that the county clean up contamination suspected to be coming from the Mid-Valley Sanitary Landfill and threatening a key well that supplies drinking water to Rialto.

High levels of perchlorate have been found in a monitoring well 250 feet from a drinking-water well called Rialto No. 3, said Kurt Berchtold, assistant executive officer for the regional water-quality control board. Perchlorate has not been detected in Rialto No. 3, he said.

The order would speed construction of replacement wells, Berchtold said. The county would pump out contaminated water, treat it and then supply it to Rialto to replace water that would be lost if No. 3 were shut down, he said.



for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_bperch16.eb3d.html

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