2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Dec 2004 20:08:48 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Wyle's impact on its Norco neighbords
 
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.



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


-- 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 http://www.cpeo.org

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