May 21, 2007 - Buried deep beneath mounds of dust and landfill in the city of Rialto, California lies a legacy some wish could stay buried forever. But that legacy—a chemical left over from spent rocket fuel—has now surfaced as a potentially dangerous pollutant in drinking water.
That chemical is perchlorate, an ion present in salts. Since perchlorate was detected in water wells near Rialto in 1997, residents have been paying to remove it from their drinking water.
In this primarily black and Latino city of 100,000, families pay as much as an extra 15 percent on their water bills as a "perchlorate surcharge." So far these charges have added up to $6.6 million since 2002.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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