2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Jul 2006 17:39:52 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate cleanup at Santa Clarita, CA
 
Officials see cleanup of Bermite site
Homes planned for land where munitions were produced for years

BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
LA Daily News (CA)
July 30, 2006

SANTA CLARITA - Machines that bag tons of dirt, giant drills and monitoring wells were some of the highlights in a tour of the polluted Whittaker-Bermite site Saturday, as water agency officials and local residents visited the 996-acre property.

Two companies are buying the property in the heart of Santa Clarita with plans to build houses where explosives were once manufactured and tested.

But first, work must be done at the site to reduce contamination from such toxins as perchlorate, a rocket fuel component linked to thyroid problems. Saturday's tour was meant to give local officials and residents a view of the process.

...

Tour participant Lynne Plambeck, a Newhall County Water District board member, noted that cleanup has mostly been limited to treating soil, and the important work of decontaminating groundwater remains.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4112428

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 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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