[CPEO-MEF] More about Santa Clarita site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bermite site sale eyed
Upland firm wants former munitions plant

By Susan Abram
Los Angeles Daily News
December 7, 2004

SANTA CLARITA -- An Upland-based real estate group has entered into an
agreement to buy the contaminated Whittaker-Bermite property, a site the
city has been eager to clean up and develop for years.

Lewis-Soledad Canyon LLC filed a motion of interest in an Arizona
bankruptcy court Tuesday to make way for the possible purchase from
three shareholders of the 996 acres.

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For nearly 50 years, the 996 acres off Soledad Canyon Road were used by
defense contractors to build and test dynamite, Sidewinder missiles and
small rockets used in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and
the Cold War.

Manufacturing operations at Whittaker-Bermite concluded in 1987, but the
site is contaminated with various chemical compounds, including
perchlorate and heavy metals, solvents and possibly remnants of fired
munitions, which have migrated into the valley's groundwater system.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20949~2582472,00.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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