[CPEO-MEF] Rialto's (CA) perchlorate challenge

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City strategy in lawsuit questioned

By Jason Pesick
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
July 9, 2007

RIALTO - City officials see their fight to clean up 
perchlorate-contaminated drinking water as a classic underdog story - a 
modest city going to court to get big corporations and the Pentagon to 
clean up a mess.

To City Attorney Bob Owen, it's like David and Goliath, with Rialto as 
David - of course.

It might take more than a slingshot to do the job, though.

It might take $300 million to clean up contamination discovered in 1997.

Thus Rialto has armed itself with a team of top-tier lawyers to pursue 
lawsuits against suspected polluters.

City leaders say they're on a righteous quest, but some water-cleanup 
experts and others who have dealt with similar challenges call it folly.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_6330114

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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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