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Regional water quality board to weigh San Bernardino County deal to clean up tainted groundwater

Posted by: Maven on February 14, 2009 at 5:44 am

From the Riverside’s Press-Enterprise:

A regional water quality board will consider approving a settlement calling for San Bernardino County to continue cleanup of a landfill that leaked toxic perchlorate into the groundwater of Colton and Rialto.

Kurt Berchtold, assistant executive officer of the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, said the April 24 hearing is a technicality growing out of the tentative settlement between San Bernardino County and the two cities nearly a year ago.

The earlier settlement called for the county to pay Rialto $4 million and Colton $1 million for the perchlorate contamination. Perchlorate is a chemical found in rocket fuel and fireworks.

“I thought we would have had it (the settlement money) a year ago,” Rialto City Councilman Ed Scott said by phone Friday. “Who knows when we’ll get it? I’m hoping by mid-summer that everything will be finished and we’ll have our settlement with the county.”

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February 14, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water, Southern California

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