[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS: Development near Rocketdyne (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

From: Michael Collins <mlcreporter@verizon.net>

EnviroReporter.com <http://enviroreporter.com/index.html> has discovered 
that a proposed development site at Runkle Canyon, in Simi Valley 
California, is even more impacted by contamination than previously 
known. This revelation came after careful analysis of thousands of pages 
of documents provided by the developer, KB Home, to California EPA's 
Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and through documented 
data, reports, and analysis by EnviroReporter.com from its three-year 
investigation of the site. DTSC was given the results of our new 
revelations July 6, 2008 as part of the document analysis stage of their 
"voluntary cleanup agreement" with KB Home.

As we have previously reported (in tandem with the Ventura County 
Reporter and Los Angeles CityBeat), the 1,600-acre site's soil, surface 
water and groundwater have been impacted by high levels of radioactive 
strontium-90, the toxic chemicals perchlorate and trichloroethylene, and 
heavy metals including chromium, arsenic, and vanadium. 
EnviroReporter.com has now learned that:

* Toxic rocket fuel component NDMA has been found in the groundwater;

* Cancerous benzene is oozing out of a tarry muck on the property at 
chronic levels which the developer's lab says should be excavated and 
removed;

* Rocket fuel oxidizer perchlorate has been found in the groundwater at 
levels five times higher than previously known and 55 times Cal-EPA's 
Public Health Goal;

* Heavy metal vanadium detected in water at level four times higher than 
previously known and threatens Simi Valley's groundwater supply;

* Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon benzo(a)antracene is 39.19 times the 
EPA's Preliminary Remediation Goal for the contaminant.

EnviroReporter.com has just created three interactive timelines that 
explain, in documented detail, these new developments as well as the 
history of Runkle Canyon and the controversy surrounding it:

http://enviroreporter.com/runklecanyontimeline.html 	 
http://enviroreporter.com/KBhomeDTSCdocstimeline.html 	 
http://enviroreporter.com/criticalrunkledocstimeline.html

EnviroReporter.com is the website of Michael Collins and Denise Anne 
Duffield, the Los Angeles Press Club's 2007 Online Journalists of the 
Year <http://enviroreporter.com/lapressclub50thgala.html> .

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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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