[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Rialto (CA) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RIALTO: $5.7 million perchlorate settlement reached
Firms that used the 160-acre Goodrich industrial site will help pay  
for perchlorate cleanup; residents to be reimbursed

BY JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press Enterprise (CA)
October 26, 2012

Companies that produced fireworks at a Rialto industrial site where  
perchlorate contaminated the water supply have agreed to pay $5.7  
million — the first of three settlements expected to total more than  
$100 million, officials said.

The money will cover cleanup costs and reimburse residents who have  
been paying a surcharge on their water bills for almost a decade.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rialto, Colton and San  
Bernardino County had sued Pyro Spectaculars Inc. and other parties  
suspected of dumping or burning toxic chemicals in pits at the site  
north of Interstate 210, between Alder and Locust avenues. The  
cities, as well as water districts not involved in the lawsuits, shut  
down 20 contaminated wells and installed treatment equipment after  
the pollution was discovered in 1997.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20121026-rialto- 
perchlorate-settlement-reached.ece

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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>
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