[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) Superfund update

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Old nuclear lab near Simi Valley is closer to making Superfund list
Agency says the site near Simi Valley should get Superfund money.

By Gregory W. Griggs
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 11, 2007

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that a former
nuclear and rocket engine testing facility at Boeing's Santa Susana
Field Laboratory near Simi Valley should be added to the national
Superfund cleanup list.

In a letter sent last week to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the
EPA's San Francisco office recapped the history of chemical and
radioactive contamination at the 2,850-acre hilltop lab that first began
operations as a nuclear research facility in 1948. Later, it also became
a rocket engine testing facility.

According to the EPA, soil and water poisoned with trichloroethylene,
estimated at more than 500,000 gallons, forced the closure of on-site
drinking wells in 1980. And 32 years of nuclear testing at the lab
produced radioactive pollutants that have tainted water at the location
and could affect "municipal drinking water supplies in the future."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-rocket11dec11,1,6103185.story?coll=la-news-environment&ctrack=1&cset=true

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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>
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