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SSFL Area IV

Galleries begin below text. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory’s Area IV’s extensive radiological contamination is the result of partial meltdowns, accidents, spills along with burning and dumping. Six out of ten experimental reactors suffered major accidents including the 1959 partial meltdown of the Sodium Reactor Experiment, or SRE, which released […]

SSFL Area IV Reactor Lifecycle

In 2004, Venice-based McDaniel Lambert, Inc. produced a United States Department of Energy (DOE) public presentation about the cleanup of the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) where extensive radioactive contamination remains from decades of nuclear work. The PowerPoint presentation was called “DOE Radiological Activities in Area IV” and described in […]

SSFL Ponds

Throughout the facility are a number of so-called “ponds” which are extraordinarily polluted and sit at the very top of the headwaters of the Los Angeles River across the Ventura County line to the east. Dioxin was detected in SSFL’s R2 pond at levels as high as 12,400 parts per […]

SSFL Area III

Area III of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) encompasses a number of facilities, most of which are astronomically polluted. The drainage from Area III makes its way down Bell Canyon and into the Los Angeles River to the east. These facilities include the ECL Pond which was used for […]

SSFL Area II – Gallery B

SSFL Area II includes the rocket test stands at the Coca Area, seen here. “Three test stands were initially constructed at the Coca area in 1956 to support the development of the Navaho and Atlas engines,” according to Rocketdyne Archives. “In 1963, two of the original stands were demolished and […]

SSFL Area II – Gallery A

SSFL Area II includes the rocket test stands at the Alpha Area and Bravo Area, seen below. Operational with three test stands beginning in 1955, Alpha supported the first manned orbital flight of Atlas-Mercury in 1962. Both Alpha and Bravo areas are heavily polluted as are some of the surrounding […]

SSFL Area I – Gallery C

The 858-acre “Group 1B is located in the east-central portion of the SSFL and lies in Area I and the eastern portion of the southern undeveloped land area,” says a Boeing report [no longer online at original Boeing web address]. “The Group 1B area is bounded to the north and […]

SSFL Area I – Gallery B

SSFL’s Area I consists of 671 acres owned by Rocketdyne and 42 acres owned by NASA (formerly owned by U.S. Air Force) in the northeast portion of the site. It includes the former Area I Thermal Treatment Facility and three rocket engine test areas, the Bowl, Canyon, and Advanced Propulsion […]

SSFL Area I – Gallery A

The 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory sits high in the hills between the Simi and San Fernando valleys in eastern Ventura County, California. Our ongoing investigation of Rocketdyne, as it is commonly called, began in 1998. Area I is the site of years of rocket tests, laser experimentation and a […]

RFI Groupings – Investigation Areas

Resource Conservation Recovery Act Facility Investigations, or RFI groupings, are areas of the Santa Susana Field Lab that are characterized for contamination. Once this work is completed, the lead agency for the cleanup of Rocketdyne, California EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control, solicits public comment before final approval of each […]

Aerojet Chino Hills Clean Up

2000-2023 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page 2016 EnviroReporter.com comments on Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills cleanup Read EnviroReporter.com’s May 1, 2009 comments to DTSC on the OB/OD closure here. What a difference a $46 million cleanup makes! Aerojet Chino Hills would already be covered in upscale homes without our investigation […]

Aerojet Chino Hills – 2001 Clean Up

2000-2022 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page A year after our investigation first started, Aerojet began to intensify its cleanup activity which was estimated to cost $40 million by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in 2007 and now totals $46 million. In April 2001, the California Department of Toxic Substances […]

Aerojet Chino Hills

2000-2022 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page The Aerojet Chino Hills facility is 29 miles (45 km) east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles and has been the subject of much heated debate due to the intense contamination left there from Cold War Era activities. The property was the subject of an […]

Ahmanson Ranch Celebration

On May 15, 2004, a celebration of the creation of the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, commonly known as Ahmanson Ranch, took place at the Hidden Valley homestead of Dr. Richard Grossman, a famed plastic and reconstruction surgeon, and one of the movers and shakers in the battle […]

Ahmanson Ranch Dedication

On October 3, 2003, Governor Gray Davis announced the saving of Ahmanson Ranch. This is a day that will forever live in the hearts of those who fought so hard to save the land. I wasn’t one of those save open space folks. Indeed, the reporting we did had to […]

Mountains of Goo

Runkle Canyon’s Radiation Rangers uncover KB Home’s promise to remove two giant mountains of slag material that are leaking pools of toxic sludge. Rangers say it’s a mountain of malarkey.