[CPEO-MEF] Arsenic testing near Rocketdyne (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Bubble Trouble
City of Simi Valley forced to test Runkle Canyon water and soil for arsenic

By MICHAEL COLLINS
LA City Beat
July 26, 2007

No sooner had Simi Valley's cadre of concerned citizens, the Radiation 
Rangers, discovered that arsenic and other heavy metals were fouling the 
water and soil of Runkle Canyon than the knives came out. The findings 
of these toxins in the 1,595-acre canyon where Westwood-based KB Home 
wants to build 461 new residences, were first reported in CityBeat (see 
cover story "The Radiation Rangers," June 21). The city and local media 
jumped on the news with a vengeance, as if the citizens group had not 
already been pleading with the city to test the suspiciously gooey water 
and muck discovered by a hiker in last Thanksgiving.

...

Failure to comprehend CityBeat's reporting, whether feigned or not, is 
no comfort to the residents of Simi Valley alarmed over this already 
approved development project that lies in the shadow of the extremely 
polluted Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), commonly known as 
Rocketdyne, which is the site of several partial nuclear meltdowns and 
innumerable radioactive and chemical accidents and spills. An 11-acre 
drainage from the nuclear area of Rocketdyne leads into Runkle Canyon 
where we have reported extraordinarily high amounts of the 
leukemia-causing radionuclide strontium-90 (see our cover story 
"Neighborhood Threat," March 10, 2005) that, according to our 
conservative estimates, will launch more than 112 tons of dust generated 
by the development's grading and construction.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5892&IssueNum=216

See also http://enviroreporter.com/runklecanyonnews_analysis.html
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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