[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto (CA) cleanup plan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

RIALTO: Superfund cleanup plan issued


By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
October 7, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will build pumps 
and treatment systems to clean contaminated groundwater from the 
Rialto-Colton groundwater basin and deliver it to homes and businesses.

The cleanup, which could cost as much as $18 million, focuses on 
pollution from the B.F. Goodrich Superfund site, a 160-acre industrial 
parcel north of Interstate 210, between Alder and Locust avenues, where 
toxic chemicals were dumped on the ground or burned in pits for decades.

Perchlorate, an ingredient in fireworks and rocket fuel, and 
trichloroethylene, or TCE, a solvent, seeped into groundwater and has 
traveled at least three miles to the southeast, toward wells owned by 
the city of Riverside.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_epa08.2fda47e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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