[CPEO-MEF] Development near Rocketdyne (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Hills Have Eyes
Simi Valley residents unite to fight 'hot' KB Homes development in 
Runkle Canyon

By MICHAEL COLLINS
LA City Beat
September 21, 2006

"I am not a tree hugger, an environmental activist, or an Erin 
Brockovich wannabe," said Patricia Coryell before an August 21 meeting 
of the Simi Valley City Council. Coryell and about two dozen other 
concerned citizens were there to address the impending construction of 
hundreds of homes in Runkle Canyon, which is less than a mile from the 
aerospace and defense labs generally known as Rocketdyne, the site of 
intense nuclear and chemical pollution. Coryell added, "When I moved to 
Simi Valley four and a half years ago, I didn't know anything about 
Rocketdyne and I had never heard of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory 
[SSFL]."

Coryell sure knows now. In 1959, the worst nuclear disaster in American 
history occurred at Rocketdyne where a partial meltdown of an 
experimental reactor released more radioactive poisons than the more 
infamous Three Mile Island meltdown in 1978. Numerous nuclear accidents 
and deliberate dumping and burning of radioactive and chemical waste has 
so contaminated the lab that it is in the midst of a quarter-billion 
dollar federal cleanup with no guarantee of success.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4373&IssueNum=172

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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