[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Whittaker-Bermite site (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A blast from the past
Environment: Experts say removing munitions from the Whittaker-Bermite 
site could take another year

By Jim Holt
Santa Clarita Signal (CA)
September 13, 2010

If something goes "boom" in the hills east of Railroad Avenue, do not be 
alarmed. It's simply cleanup crews dismantling and removing unexploded 
munitions found on the Whittaker-Bermite site.

After more than 65 years of manufacturing firms lighting up the sky over 
the Santa Clarita Valley with explosives - from dynamite made in the 
1930s to rocket fuel made in the '80s - there's a better-than-good 
chance a "live" ordinance is still out there waiting to be triggered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/33505/

--


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



_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org