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Rialto, Colton, two water agencies to receive $3.5 million to help fund perchlorate cleanup

Posted by: Maven on December 20, 2009 at 7:18 am

From the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

“The cities of Rialto, Colton and two water agencies are expected to share $3.5 million to fund 10 new water treatment systems as part a bill passed by the U.S. Sentate.

The bill, which was passed Saturday, calls for funding for water treatment systems to remove perchlorate from water used by 250,000 people in western San Bernardino County, according to the Associated Press.

The new treatment systems will clean 31 million gallons of water per day.

“Obviously, this is very welcome news for the area,” Rialto City Councilman Ed Scott said, when reached by telephone. … “

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December 20, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water

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One Response to “Rialto, Colton, two water agencies to receive $3.5 million to help fund perchlorate cleanup”

  1. Larry Ladd on December 20th, 2009 7:20 pm

    Somewhere out there in the country there are people drinking way too much perchlorate, so we need a national drinking water standard for this chemical. Examples from California relevant to the rest of the US would be 800 ppb perchlorate in private wells next to a former airbag plant in Hollister CA, or 150 ppb from fertilizer in a well supplying a trailer park outside Santa Rosa CA. Very high doses of perchlorate can raise the levels of phospholipid antibodies, particularly cardiolipin, associated with lupus autoimmunity. Cardiolipin antibodies cause blood clots and aplastic anemia. High cardiolipin antibodies are associated with fungal infections, e.g. desert fever. See Beickert and Heinicke 1968 pubmed id 4181403. You can approximate this immunotoxic effect (drug induced lupus) with the artificial antibody infliximab.

    Larry Ladd

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