[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate near Santa Susana Field Labs (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins found 1 1/2 miles from Santa Susana lab

By Kerry Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Daily News
July 12, 2005

WEST HILLS -- Builders of a 151-home development have found very high 
levels of perchlorate contamination near a creek that drains from the 
Santa Susana Field Lab, officials said Monday.

But consultants hired by Centex Homes said they were unsure whether the 
chemical is from the hilltop nuclear and rocket-fuel facility or was 
placed on the property only recently -- and, perhaps, intentionally.

A Centex consultant detected the rocket-fuel ingredient at levels as 
high as 62,000 parts per million in the sediment along Dayton Canyon 
Creek, about 1 1/2 miles from the lab.

That is 850 times more potent than perchlorate samples taken at 
Rocketdyne's laboratory, where rocket fuel was spilled onto the soil, 
and it is nearly 8,000 times the level allowed for residential 
neighborhoods.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2960971,00.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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