US county to pay EPA $11m in perc, TCE cleanup

07 November 2007 23:40  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--California's San Bernardino County will pay $11m (€7.6m) to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a settlement to clean up chlorinated-solvent contamination from the Newmark Groundwater Contamination Superfund site, the federal regulator said on Wednesday.

The settlement absolves the county of potential liability at the groundwater site, which the EPA said contains perchloroethylene (perc), tricholoroethylene (TCE) and other chlorinated-solvent contaminants from the nearby Cajon Landfill. The county operated the landfill between 1963 and 1980.

The contamination affected more than 25% of the water supply to the 175,000 residents of San Bernardino city, the EPA said.

“This settlement will support the EPA’s ongoing efforts to clean up contamination to the San Bernardino regional groundwater and to recover the costs spend at the Newark site,” EPA Superfund Pacific Southwest Director Keith Takata said in a prepared statement.

($1.00 = €0.69)

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