[CPEO-MEF] Future of Santa Susana Lab (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Future of lab site uncertain
Some want the land as open space, but they're skeptical of the 
property's post-cleanup safety

By Teresa Rochester
Ventury County Star (CA)
November 14, 2007

Deer roam in the shadows of hulking metal skeletons once used as rocket 
engine test stands, cleaned with chemicals now believed dangerous to people.

Nearly 70 bird species live in an area where a nuclear reactor partially 
melted down.

Groves of coastal live oak, southern willow scrub and native grasses 
cover the 2,850 acres of the hilltop Santa Susana Field Laboratory, 
where toxic chemicals were burned in an open air pit.

The laboratory, plagued with chemical and radioactive contamination from 
decades as a rocket engine and nuclear test site, is also a place of 
immense natural beauty.

The acreage may become parkland once it is cleaned, as part of a 
complicated deal between its owner, Boeing Co., and state regulatory 
agencies. The deal would require Boeing to clean the site to "levels 
acceptable for residential use and that protect individuals living in 
the vicinity of the property."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/nov/14/future-of-lab-site-uncertain/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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