[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate in well water at Santa Clarita (CA) development

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate in well water
Chemical find unlikely to alter West Creek


By Susan Abram
Los Angeles Daily News
June 3, 2005

SANTA CLARITA -- Perchlorate has been found in water in one of the
supply wells intended to serve a proposed 2,200-home community, county
and development officials said this week.

The discovery was made in April during a routine analysis of the water
by the Valencia Water Co., in a well that is adjacent to the planned
West Creek housing development site. The well is east of Bouquet Creek
and the Santa Clara River.

An environmental impact report for the 2,200-home project on 996 acres
in unincorporated northern Valencia was certified by the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors in March. The Newhall Land and Farming
Company is the developer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20949~2901066,00.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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