[CPEO-MEF] Whittaker-Bermite (CA) perchlorate settlement hopes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate Cleanup Deal Expected

By Reina V. Slutske
Santa Clarita (Saugus) Signal (CA)
November 5, 2006

Board members and staff of the Castaic Lake Water Agency are hoping to 
reach a final settlement regarding payment for cleanup at the 
Whittaker-Bermite site by the end of the year.

"It's my thought that we will achieve a settlement by year's end, and 
there's still hope for that," general manager Dan Masnada said.

The lawsuit was filed by the Castaic Lake Water Agency and other local 
water purveyors in 1999.

The legal action would require Whittaker-Bermite to pay cleanup fees for 
the 996-acre Saugus property, formerly the site of munitions 
manufacturing and now polluted with perchlorate, a rocket fuel byproduct 
that has been linked to thyroid problems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=34008&format=html

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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>
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