[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Whittaker-Bermite (CA) water treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wells open after decade-long closure
Water: Agency shows new plant; treated water to be dumped into Santa 
Clara River deemed drinkable

By Natalie Everett
Santa Clarita Signal (CA)
May 19, 2010

The Castaic Lake Water Agency on Thursday took dozens of VIPs on a tour 
of its new perchlorate treatment facility, which treats water from two 
wells that had been shut for more than a decade.

The wells, named Saugus 1 and Saugus 2, pump 2,200 gallons of water per 
minute. They restarted May 3 after closing in 1997, when officials 
discovered perchlorate contamination on a large property known as 
Whittaker-Bermite.

The toxin, which can damage the thyroid, leaked into the soil and 
groundwater under the Santa Clarita Valley as companies built rockets 
and explosives there for decades.

The $5 million treatment facility is located near Bouquet Canyon and 
Newhall Ranch roads. Water travels from the wells - located near the 
Magic Mountain Parkway and Railroad Avenue intersection southeast of the 
996-acre Whittaker-Bermite property - to the facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/28864/

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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>
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