[CPEO-MEF] Wyle's impact on its Norco neighbords

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Homeowners near Wyle wonder if they'll ever sell

By SUE DOYLE
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
December 28, 2004

NORCO - With acres of rolling green grass, horse stables and good 
schools nearby, homes on Golden West Lane should sell with no problem.

Because they're next to 425 acres of what qualifies as a Superfund site, 
however, the houses have no takers.

One family has given up. Another refuses to. A third may try to sell in 
the future.

All three homes were found to have very low levels of trichloroethylene 
along their foundations. As testing continues, all three families find 
themselves stuck in their $500,000 homes with no way out.

"You might say these homes are your life savings. They are selling for 
half a million," said Kenneth Chapman, 73, who isn't sure when he will 
sell his house. "That's a lot of money that you're sitting on. That's a 
bad feeling."

Chapman's house, like his neighbors' in the 2200 block of Golden West 
Lane, sits at the bottom of a hill, separated by a chain-link fence from 
Wyle Laboratories Inc., a high-tech test and engineering company based 
in El Segundo that used its Norco site to test products such as rocket 
fuels and electronics for the military and aerospace industries.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203%257E21481%257E2623360,00.html


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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