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EPA WILL MEET WITH COMMUNITY TO DISCUSS SAN BERNARDINO WELL CONSTRUCTION

Release Date: 6/6/2000
Contact Information: Randy Wittorp, U.S. EPA, 415-744-1589

     MEDIA ADVISORY

       
     SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of San Bernardino Water Department will meet with concerned residents in San Bernardino to discuss plans for the construction of wells that will be a part of the Newmark Superfund site groundwater treatment system.  The discussion will follow up on issues raised by the community at a February 22 meeting.

           Who:     U.S. EPA and the City of San Bernardino Water Department
           What:    Community meeting on well construction for the Newmark    
                    Superfund site groundwater clean-up
           Dates, Times & Locations:

                    JUNE 12, 2000 at 7PM
                    Martin Luther King School
                    1250 Medical Center Drive
                    San Bernardino, CA                  or

                    JUNE 13, 2000 at 7PM
                    Roosevelt Elementary School
                    1554 North Garner Avenue
                    San Bernardino, CA
               
     The Newmark Superfund Site is one of the largest sites in the country.  The site was added to the Superfund list following the discovery that portions of the groundwater under San Bernardino are contaminated with perchloroethylene and trichloroethylene -- industrial dry cleaning, metal plating and degreasing solvents.  If the contamination is not treated, it will continue to spread and further wells could be lost in a region where no alternative water supply exists.