[CPEO-BIF] Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (CA) hosts meeting on Saugus aquifer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SCV Water hosts meeting on Saugus aquifer

By EMILY ALVARENGA
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency works to remove hazardous substances from the Saugus Formation Aquifer, the agency hosted a virtual public meeting to inform residents of the process and gather community input Thursday.

The aquifer is the deepest of the SCV’s underground groundwater reservoirs that lies in the upper Santa Clara River watershed, near Magic Mountain Parkway, according to Steve Cole, assistant general manager at SCV Water.

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Over many decades, hazardous substances, such as perchlorate and volatile organic compounds, were released by entities, including the Whittaker Corp. at the nearby Whittaker-Bermite facility along with the Saugus Industrial Center, formerly known as the Keysor-Century Corporation Facility, and entered into four production wells, Saugus 1 and 2, V-201, and V- 205, Cole added.

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For the entire article, see
https://signalscv.com/2021/02/scv-water-hosts-meeting-on-saugus-aquifer/

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





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