[CPEO-IRF] Living on Earth on closure and cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup planned for site by homes
Development expected to get council approval

By Eugene Tong
Los Angeles Daily News
May 20, 2005

SAUGUS - A cleanup plan is being drafted for a contaminated well near 
the site of Newhall Land's 1,100-home Riverpark project, just as the 
development is close to gaining city approval, officials said.

The Santa Clarita City Council is prepared to sign off Tuesday on the 
proposed 695-acre subdivision north of the Santa Clara River. The vote 
comes more than a month after the discovery of the rocket-fuel 
ingredient perchlorate in a well forced The Newhall Land and Farming 
Company to delay what may have been the project's final public hearing.

The Valencia Water Company well is located west of Bouquet Canyon Road 
and south of Newhall Ranch Road, just outside the project's boundary. 
Officials found in late March the well had perchlorate levels between 
9.8 and 11 parts per billion - slightly above the 6 parts per billion 
allowed under state environmental guidelines.

...

For the entire article, see

Polluted Defense Sites

Jeff Young
Living on Earth (NPR)
Week of May 20, 2005

Many of the military bases slated for closure are highly contaminated. 
Cleaning them up could be the biggest barrier to putting the bases to 
new civilian use. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young looks at what lessons can 
be learned from past rounds of base closures.

...

For the entire story in print or audio, go to
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00020&segmentID=2


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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