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Everyone heads back to negotiating table as county perchlorate settlement is tabled

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on March 14, 2009 at 6:45 am

From the Contra Costa Times:

A proposed settlement between San Bernardino County and state water-quality regulators that would require the county to clean up much of the perchlorate contaminating Rialto’s drinking water has been put on hold.

The settlement was scheduled to be considered by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board at its April 24 meeting. But it has been taken off the calendar, said the board’s assistant executive officer, Kurt Berchtold. Renewed effort will now be put into global settlement talks among all the parties involved in the matter.

“It appeared that various (suspected polluters) would spend considerable effort challenging the county settlement and that would potentially disrupt the global settlement talks,” Berchtold said.

The proposed settlement would hold the county responsible for continuing its cleanup of a portion of the contamination. But other suspected polluters – and there are dozens of them – seemed uncomfortable with the county’s getting its own settlement deal. Some polluters also alleged that most of the board members had conflicts of interest because of contacts about the case with staff, who act as prosecutors against suspected polluters.

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March 14, 2009 · Filed Under Perchlorate, Southern California

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