Samping required near Santa Susana Lab

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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County Boosts Field Lab Testing
A new law requires builders planning homes near Rocketdyne site in the 
Simi Hills to check for contaminants.

By Amanda Covarrubias
Los Angeles Times
August 4, 2004

Ventura County supervisors approved an ordinance Tuesday requiring home 
developers to test for contaminants before building within two miles of 
the Rocketdyne field lab in the Simi Hills.

The ordinance was approved on a 3-2 vote over the objections of defense 
contractor Boeing, which owns the site, and Supervisors Judy Mikels and 
Kathy Long.

The critics said the ordinance was unnecessary because state and federal 
regulatory agencies already require extensive testing and the action 
would stigmatize neighborhoods surrounding the 2,700-acre Santa Susana 
Field Laboratory.

But Supervisor Linda Parks, who proposed the ordinance, said it would 
provide neighbors and potential home buyers with another level of security.

"I think it will prove useful to give developers a clean bill of 
health," Parks said during the 1 1/2 -hour debate over the ordinance 
that at times appeared to be doomed. "I think it's a responsible thing 
to do to know before we allow a housing developer to build there that 
the land isn't contaminated."

The ordinance will require housing developers to test for perchlorate 
and trichloroethylene within a two-mile radius of the rocket-testing 
lab. Perchlorate, the main ingredient in rocket fuel, has been detected 
in wells in Simi Valley and near the Ahmanson and Runkle ranches.

…

for the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/ventura/la-me-rocket4aug04,1,3388607.story?coll=la-editions-ventura


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