[CPEO-MEF] URANIUM, PERCHLORATE, VOCs: Bermite site cleanup, Santa Clarita, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup plans for toxic site nearly done


BY Natalie Everett
Santa Clarita Signal (CA)
July 9, 2010

A state department this month will share its cleanup plan for most of 
the Whittaker-Bermite property, the contaminated 1,000-acre plot of land 
at the center of Santa Clarita, officials said during a meeting Wednesday.

Whittaker Corp., the company tasked with cleaning toxins out of the 
property, may soon be able to cross one of six sections of the site off 
of its to-do list.

But the task of cleaning the former site of a munitions plant is still 
far from over.

In late May, 241 truckloads of dirt dotted with depleted uranium were 
carted off to a Utah landfill. Later this month, the California 
Department of Toxic Substances Control will release plans for cleaning 
up toxic chemicals like perchlorate from the remaining five areas.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/30835/

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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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