[CPEO-BIF] Whittaker-Bermite groundwater cleanup plan, Santa Clarita, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whittaker-Bermite groundwater cleanup plan set for public comment
Officials extend commenting period and have scheduled a meeting Thursday

By Jim Holt
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
May 12, 2014

State officials prepped to unveil their seven-year plan to clean up  
contaminated groundwater on the Whittaker-Bermite site have extended  
the public comment period from 30 to 49 days in anticipation of an  
enthusiastic response from the community.

...

The Whittaker-Bermite location - nearly 1,000 acres in the center of  
Santa Clarita on the hills south and east of Saugus Speedway - was a  
working munitions manufacturing site from the 1930s through 1980s.  
Its soil is contaminated in specific locations, and some of that  
contamination has leaked into the valley’s groundwater.

In 1967 Whittaker Corp. bought the site in 1967 and it was renamed  
from Bermite to Whittaker. Although the property is now owned by  
another firm, Whittaker - through its insurer - is financially  
responsible for cleaning it up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signalscv.com/section/36/article/119702/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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