Political Quotes

“this is a powerful piece of environmental legislation, and I strongly urge its support. Mr. Speaker, I commend our esteemed colleague from California, Congressman David Dreier, for his leadership on this important environmental legislation. Ground water contamination was discovered in the San Gabriel Basin in 1979. EPA placed this area on the Superfund national priorities list in 1984. Although this basin provides drinking water to 1.4 million people, EPA is only now getting around to addressing the contamination at this site. To make matters worse, in 1997, perchlorate was discovered in the groundwater. Percholorate is a component of rocket fuel and is very difficult to treat. And just this past year, the local community received even more devastating news: The contamination from the San Gabriel Basin has spread into the Central Basin aquifer that provides drinking water for half of Los Angeles County. On a bipartisan basis, the representatives of the San Gabriel Valley and the Central Basin, led by Representative Dreier, worked with the local community to develop a solution to this problem. I commend their efforts and congratulate them on this legislation.”