[CPEO-MEF] Santa Clarita perchlorate pumping

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CLWA set to clean toxic wells
Project would filter perchlorate, other pollutants from Bermite site

BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
Los Angeles Daily News
September 9, 2006

SANTA CLARITA - After years of study, the Castaic Lake Water Agency is 
getting ready to start pumping and treating contaminated water from two 
wells that draw deep from within an aquifer near the Whittaker-Bermite site.

The operation is meant to protect groundwater sources from perchlorate, 
a potentially dangerous rocket fuel component that exists in high levels 
on the former munitions manufacturing site.

About half of the Santa Clarita Valley's water comes from groundwater, 
and a quarter of that water is around the site.

The water agency plans to use Saugus wells 1 and 2 - at Magic Mountain 
Parkway near a fork of the Santa Clara River and at San Fernando Road 
and Magic Mountain - to pump contaminated water from the Saugus Aquifer 
800 feet down. Agency officials expect the operation to keep the plume 
of perchlorate from spreading.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4313306

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org

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