[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate cleanup at Santa Clarita, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials see cleanup of Bermite site
Homes planned for land where munitions were produced for years

BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
LA Daily News (CA)
July 30, 2006

SANTA CLARITA - Machines that bag tons of dirt, giant drills and 
monitoring wells were some of the highlights in a tour of the polluted 
Whittaker-Bermite site Saturday, as water agency officials and local 
residents visited the 996-acre property.

Two companies are buying the property in the heart of Santa Clarita with 
plans to build houses where explosives were once manufactured and tested.

But first, work must be done at the site to reduce contamination from 
such toxins as perchlorate, a rocket fuel component linked to thyroid 
problems. Saturday's tour was meant to give local officials and 
residents a view of the process.

...

Tour participant Lynne Plambeck, a Newhall County Water District board 
member, noted that cleanup has mostly been limited to treating soil, and 
the important work of decontaminating groundwater remains.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4112428

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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