[CPEO-BIF] Wyle Labs upper basin, Norco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Half of toxic Wyle site could soon be OK'd for development

By ALICIA ROBINSON
Riverside Press-Enterprise
April 27, 2009

While unknown amounts of pollution remain on about half of the former 
Wyle Laboratories site in Norco, about 212 acres of the property may 
soon be declared clean and suitable for development.

The state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which has overseen 
cleanup of pollution at Wyle since 2003, is poised to announce no more 
work will be necessary on the eastern half of the property, an area 
known as the upper basin.

Wyle Labs tested defense and aerospace products on its 429-acre Hillside 
Avenue property from 1959 until 2004, when the lab closed. The property 
was sold to a developer who planned homes for the site, but community 
concerns led to testing, which found known and suspected cancer-causing 
contaminants.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_E_wwyle26.42b6bc4.html

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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: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org




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