[CPEO-MEF] Rialto, CA perchlorate liability case

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge rebuffs water board

By SCOTT VANHORNE
San Bernardino County Sun (CA)
November 16, 2004 - 

RIALTO - A regional water board went overboard when it ordered a
corporation with an obscure link to pollution here to pay for a probe of
the problem, a judge has ruled.

The decision exempts Emhart Industries Inc., a subsidiary of Black and
Decker Corp. and one of the few water-pollution suspects with deep
pockets, from complying with an earlier mandate.

Two years ago, the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board
ordered Emhart and 19 other entities to investigate perchlorate
contamination emanating from land in north Rialto.

The board erred by not providing Emhart a chance to refute charges that
it is the successor to West Coast Loading Corp., the company suspected
of allowing perchlorate to leak into groundwater in the early 1950s,
Riverside Superior Court Judge Gary Tranbarger ruled last week.

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2539349,00.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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