2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:14:06 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Rocketdyne (CA), chromium, and Runkle Canyon
 
White blight
Runkle Canyon's chromium conundrum

By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter (CA)
June 26, 2008

The men had been up that hot dusty trail before, high in the hills above Simi Valley. Hawks flew overhead as vernal pools evaporated in the late March heat. Tracks of critters led to the stream that still had an oily sheen to it as it did in May 2007. That's when these two "Radiation Rangers," self-styled concerned Simi Valley citizens, had the water tested and found heavy metals including arsenic at high levels. Their findings were later confirmed by tests conducted by the City of Simi Valley.

The Rev. John Southwick and Frank Serafine climbed higher into the lush chaparral, back to recon the canyon for any changes before a community meeting March 27 about the neighboring 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory, or Rocketdyne as the field lab is typically called. The lab's soil and groundwater are heavily polluted by radiological and chemical toxins as well as heavy metals. The troubled property has an 11-acre drainage that runs down from its nuclear testing area into Runkle Canyon.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/white_blight/6075/

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