[CPEO-MEF] Santa Clarita (CA) perchlorate settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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