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Health probe started in Rialto water contamination

Posted by: Maven on December 3, 2009 at 7:51 am

From the Riverside Press-Enterprise:

“The state is combing old water records to determine whether highly contaminated groundwater — which now stretches for miles from an industrial site in Rialto — caused illnesses among residents in the many decades before it was discovered, health officials said during a community meeting Wednesday night.

In 1997, three wells were found to have high levels of perchlorate, an ingredient in rocket fuel, and trichloroethylene, or TCE, an industrial solvent, which seeped into the soil and underground water. Water was not tested for perchlorate before then.

The source is a 160-acre site north of Interstate 210, between Alder and Locust avenues, where private companies and government agencies stored, tested and manufactured munitions, rocket motors and fireworks.

It is the Inland region’s largest uncontrolled plume of perchlorate in a drinking-water supply. … “

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December 3, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water

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