Testing required for developments near Santa Susana lab

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Testing eyed near rocket lab
Requirement proposed in Ventura County


By Kerry Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Daily News
July 26, 2004 

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors plans to vote today on a
proposed requirement to test soil and groundwater before approving
subdivisions on unincorporated land within two miles of the Santa Susana
Field Lab.

The testing order around the contaminated Simi Hills rocket lab would be
a first for the surrounding community, where three housing projects are
planned and demand is increasing for development.

The Boeing Co., which owns the field laboratory, is against the proposed
requirement, charging it unfairly would stigmatize the surrounding
property as presumably contaminated.

Supporters of required testing say it is the only way for future home
buyers to know if they are moving onto tainted property.

The sampling proposal by Supervisor Linda Parks was prompted by
discoveries of perchlorate, a byproduct of rocket fuel, first in an
Ahmanson Ranch well and later in a planned Simi Valley development.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2296177,00.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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