[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, PUBLIC: Whittaker-Bermite site (CA) Community Advisory Group

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Where has our little CAG gone?
Environmentally Speaking

Cam Noltemeyer
Santa Clarita Signal
November 5, 2009

For many years the Whittaker-Bermite facility made ordnance in the Santa 
Clarita Valley for the military. This 996-acre property, located off 
Soledad Canyon Road in the center of our city, is still polluting our 
groundwater with the chemicals used to make those bombs.

At the time, Whittaker was established, the Santa Clarita Valley was 
mostly empty farmland. It didn't seem to matter whether chemicals were 
dumped or handled carelessly because no one was around anyway.

Additionally, no one understood the effects such chemicals had on human 
health, though looking back, it seems like they should have.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/20370/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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