2016 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:53:39 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Tour of contaminated Whittaker-Bermite meant to educate officials, " Santa Clarita Valley, California
 
Tour of contaminated Whittaker-Bermite meant to educate officials

By Jim Holt 
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
October 19, 2016

Elected officials took a break from campaigning Wednesday to go on a guided tour of the contaminated – soon to be de-contaminated – area of Whittaker Bermite.

Tour participants got close and personal with the nearly 1,000 toxic acres in SCV’s center core Wednesday to see and hear for themselves how two decades of vigorous environmental cleanup was coming to a close.

Cleanup experts anticipate the site will be completely cleaned of toxic material – volatile organic compounds trapped in the soil, health hazardous perchlorate in the groundwater – to the satisfaction of state watchdogs at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control by 2020.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signalscv.com/2016/10/19/tour-contaminated-whittaker-bermite-meant-educate-officials/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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