2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 3 May 2007 16:59:03 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Santa Clarita (CA) perchlorate settlement
 
Deal will clean Santa Clarita Valley aquifers

By Valerie Reitman
Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2007

Perchlorate contaminating the Santa Clarita Valley's underground water supply is to be cleaned up under an estimated $100-million settlement of a federal lawsuit against former and present owners of a shuttered munitions and fireworks factory announced Wednesday.

The suit was filed by four area water agencies in November 2000 against Whittaker Corp., Remediation Financial Inc. and Santa Clarita LLC over pollution at the 996-acre site known as the Whittaker-Bermite plant, which for decades operated in the heart of Santa Clarita.

Five public wells were shut in 1997, about a decade after the plant closed, after the perchlorate contamination was discovered.

Perchlorate compounds are used in the manufacture of explosives, munitions and rocket fuel.

Under the agreement, a treatment plant will be built to clean up pollution in two local aquifers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-water3may03,1,3991180.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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