[CPEO-BIF] Butterfly Preserve on former United Technologies property, Santa Clara County, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bay Area endangered butterfly to get designated preserve in Santa Clara County foothills

California Department of Toxic Substance Control
August, 2015

Since the 1980s, the population of the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly, a species native to the San Francisco Bay
Area, has been in a serious decline. As a result, it has been recognized as a federally threatened species.

But the butterfly will soon get help from the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the
Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. A piece of land in the Coyote Ridge region in Santa Clara
County will soon be designated as a preserve specifically for the butterfly.

Referred to as the ‘Buffer Zone’, the parcel of land is in the western part of the United Technologies Corporation
– Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne (UTC) facility in the Santa Clara County foothills, 14 miles southeast
of San Jose. UTC previously developed, manufactured and tested solid rocket motors for a variety of
space exploration and defense purposes on the land until it ceased operation in 2004. UTC is now decommissioning
its facilities and equipment and cleaning up soil and groundwater at its 3,300-acre facility.

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For the entire fact sheet, see
http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/Success/upload/ButterflyPreserve.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
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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