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Whittaker-Bermite Facility

21116 West Soledad Canyon Road, Santa Clarita CA

SITE LOCATION AND HISTORY
The Whitaker-B rmite Facility is in Santa Oarita, at
22116 est oledad Canyon Road occupie about 996
acre . The Facility, started making dynamite in the earl
1930s. Later, fireworks and oil field e .. tplosives were
made at the site.

Product lines grew to flares, photoflash device for
battlefield illumination and other explosive . Between
1967 and 198 , the Facility a embled 20-millimeter
(mm) and 30-mm ammunition rounds, detonator ,
fu es, boo ter , flares and signal cartridge , rocket
motors, and missile main charges.

The Facility made many products for the U.S.
Department of Defense. This affected the number
of staff, buildings needed, turnover of building
usage, chemicals used, and waste by-products
Soil treatment compound and treatment cells
generated. Some products were made in mall
for bio-treatment of perchlorate
quantities on an a -needed basi , while others were
mass-produced. Other products remained in
re earch and development stages.
The manufacturing and te ting op ra · n cea ed in 19 7
and dee mmissioning and cleanup of the production and
assembly buildings that had tarted during 1980s
continued under the ownership of anta Clarita LLC
(SCLLC) which had purcha ed the site for a plann d mix
use de elopment, After CI.LC defaulted, Whittaker took
on the responsibility of ite cleanup that continues to date.

The 996-acre hittaker-Bermite Facilit ite i bound by
Bouqu<!t Canyon R oad/ R ilro d A enue to tbe we r> We t
Sol d d Canyon R ad to th north, and Golden V 11 y
Road to the east.

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