[CPEO-BIF] Park at Special Devices site, Santa Clarita, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Caution urged with park site
Contaminated property will require special signage, critic says

By Brian Charles
Santa Clarita Signal (CA)
May 17, 2009

A city plan to buy a piece of contaminated land near Placerita Canyon is 
drawing criticism. It's also drawing comparisons to another infamous 
toxic-waste site.

The city of Santa Clarita plans to spend $2.5 million to buy the 
140-acre Special Devices site near Placerita Canyon, said Rick Gould, 
city of Santa Clarita park director. The site was the home to Special 
Devices Inc. The company manufactured explosives for the air bags used 
in automotive safety systems, and explosive release charges for the 
doors on the Mercury space capsules, Gould said.

When Special Devices abandoned the site in 1999, the company left behind 
a site with contaminated soil, said Ken Paine, project manager for the 
California Department of Toxic Substance Control.

...

According to the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act study published 
in December, the contamination in the soil was enough to prohibit 
home-building, but not enough to stop the city from turning the site 
into open space.

...

For the entire article, see http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/13336/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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