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$2.8M should go to Rialto water treatment, officials say

Posted by: Maven on May 6, 2009 at 6:39 am

From the San Bernardino Sun:

The city has different plans for about $2.8million initially granted by the State Water Resources Control Board to study groundwater contaminated with perchlorate.

Together with the Rialto-based West Valley Water District, the city has requested that the money instead be used for a project that would treat 2,000 gallons of contaminated water per minute at the city’s well No. 6 and the water district’s well No. 11. Each well is inactive.

In an April letter to the Riverside-based Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, the city and the water district said the money should be used for the treatment project because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency already is installing six groundwater monitoring wells at a 160-acre site northeast of town where perchlorate is flowing.

And Emhart Industries, a defunct subsidiary of Black and Decker Corp., is conducting a soil investigation at the site.

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May 6, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water, Southern California

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