2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:23:54 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Santa Clarita Valley Water (CA) "files lawsuit against Whittaker Corporation"
 
SCV Water files lawsuit against Whittaker Corporation

by Jim Holt
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
August 9, 2018

SCV Water filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Whittaker Corporation, seeking to cover the cost of removing two harmful contaminants - volatile organic compounds and perchlorate - from the Santa Clarita Valley groundwater basin.

...

“Despite the recent news accounts and public relations charm campaign to depict the Whittaker site cleanup as ‘nearly complete,’ the legacy of their historic contamination of the community’s groundwater basin remains to be fully addressed,” said Matt Stone, general manager of SCV Water, in a prepared statement Thursday.

The suit comes six months ahead of the expected finish date Whittaker had given the community for the completion of its cleanup of 996 acres of once contaminated land in the heart of Santa Clarita.

…

For the entire article, see
https://signalscv.com/2018/08/scv-water-files-lawsuit-against-whittaker-corporation/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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