[CPEO-MEF] Santa Clarita (CA) perchlorate soil cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whittaker-Bermite Moves Ahead on Soil Cleanup

By Kristopher Daams
Santa Clarita Signal (CA)
May 17, 2007

Efforts to clean up the contaminated soil at the Whittaker-Bermite site 
that lies in the middle of Santa Clarita have been substantially more 
productive and effective, but full cleanup of the polluted underground 
water will still take a few decades.

...

The use of a mixture of various compounds has led to a 98 percent 
success rate for the contaminated soil. From January to April, 57,000 
tons of soil were treated, and only 1,000 tons had to be re-treated to 
reach an undetectable level of perchlorate, said Hassan Amini, who is 
overseeing the soil cleanup on behalf of Whittaker Corp.

...

Amini said different elements were added to bacteria that were then 
inserted into the contaminated soil to break up the perchlorate.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=48384&format=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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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