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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Newcomers aid field lab cleanup with discoveries

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
February 10, 2008


Armed with cameras and curiosity, three people trudged through Sage 
Ranch Park last summer.

Searching for drainage from a rocket engine and nuclear test site next 
door, they stumbled upon a creek bed filled with glassy, lightweight 
foamlike material.

Venturing deeper into the park south of Simi Valley, the trio — 
Christina Walsh, William Preston Bowling and John Luker — found debris 
from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory's defunct shooting range.

Their discovery of contamination with cancer-causing pollutants 
triggered a state order for the facility's owner to clean up the debris 
in the park.

Walsh, Bowling and Luker are part of new wave of activists joining the 
fight for accountability and proper cleanup at the 2,850-acre test site 
commonly known as Rocketdyne, atop a hill straddling the Ventura-Los 
Angeles county line.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/feb/10/newcomers-aid-field-lab-cleanup-with-discoveries/

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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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