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Runkle Canyon EIR Analysis
Residents contend that the Runkle Canyon Environmental Impact Report (EIR) appears to be flawed for a number of reasons including those reported on by Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat and EnviroReporter.com, and because of new developments analyzed here. Not only were high strontium-90 findings in Runkle Canyon omitted or mischaracterized in the EIR, the actual 2003 Miller Brooks environmental [...]
HOT PROPERTY – Annotated
Runkle Canyon developers claim mysterious new state tests have erased previously high levels of radioactive contamination
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles ValleyBeat – January 19, 2006
Much like Ahmanson Ranch, the huge housing development planned near the Los Angeles County border with Ventura that was instead turned into a park, proposed construction at Runkle Canyon faces its own [...]
DUST IN THE WIND
Simi Valley city and citizens are still looking for answers about Runkle Canyon radiation
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – March 15, 2007
Last fall, spurred on by citizens alarmed at the impending development of picturesque Runkle Canyon and the cloud of strontium-90-laden dust it could launch over the Simi and San Fernando valleys, the Simi Valley [...]
Entire Pat-Chem Laboratories report
Recent articles in the Ventura County Star and the Simi Valley Acorn, and comments by City of Simi Valley officials, have misrepresented the pollution problems in Runkle Canyon and our role in reporting them. In order to correct the record, and to continue to provide the citizens of the Simi and San Fernando valleys the [...]
BUBBLE TROUBLE
City of Simi Valley forced to test Runkle Canyon water and soil for arsenic
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – July 26, 2007
No sooner had Simi Valley’s cadre of concerned citizens, the Radiation Rangers, discovered that arsenic and other heavy metals were fouling the water and soil of Runkle Canyon than the knives came out. The [...]
Simi Valley City Council Excerpts – August 20, 2007
The following two excerpts are noted in “Spin Cycle – Simi Council sells disturbing Runkle Canyon pollution report as clean” in the August 23, 2007 issue of Los Angeles CityBeat. The statements of Assistant City Manager Laura Behjan, reporting for staff, seem to indicate a disconnect between the city’s understanding of the nature of Runkle Canyon water versus [...]
DIRTY BUSINESS
New law cleaning up Rocketdyne for parkland may not stop adjacent KB Home development pushed by Simi Valley City Council
By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter – November 1, 2007
The apocalyptic Ranch Fire marching toward Simi Valley Oct. 22 never made it to the city limits, but smoky wind gusts up to 70 mph heralded the firestorm [...]
DOWN THE TEST TUBES
KB Home’s Runkle Canyon radiation tests questioned as more groundwater pollution is found and developer negotiates cleanup agreement with state
By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter – January 17, 2008
As soon as the Rev. John Southwick heard the latest round of Runkle Canyon soil testing for the leukemia-causing radionuclide strontium-90 (Sr-90) came back low, he started to question [...]
REASSESSING RUNKLE
KB Home and state agree to cooperate on troubled Simi canyon
By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter – April 24, 2008
Coming on the heels of the historic covenant to clean up the former Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory to the strictest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund standards for radiation and chemicals, a new agreement has been signed [...]
WHITE BLIGHT
Runkle Canyon’s Chromium Conundrum
By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter – 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 [...]
SPIN CYCLE
Selling Runkle Canyon pollution report as clean
By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter – August 23, 2007
The headlines out of Ventura County last week must have pleased Simi Valley officials intent on convincing its citizenry of the benign nature of Runkle Canyon’s soil and water. This is where homebuilding giants KB Home and Lennar are intent on [...]
Runkle Canyon Chromium
EnviroReporter.com analysis – June 2008
MARCH 2008 ROCK SAMPLE WITH WHITE EVAPORATE
A mysterious white evaporate or precipitate was found in Runkle Canyon by Rev. John Southwick and Frank Serafine on March 26, 2008 and given the next night to Norm Riley, Rocketdyne cleanup Project Manager for Cal-EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) which subsequently tested [...]
TWO MILE ISLAND
The Rocketdyne facility is more poisoned than anyone knew. Now residents and community leaders of the northwest San Fernando Valley and Ventura County supervisors want more testing before new homes get any closer.
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – July 22, 2004
“I didn’t know anything when I worked up at Rocketdyne, I just didn’t know anything,” [...]
THE RADIATION RANGERS
Developers of Simi Valley’s Runkle Canyon claim the water tested clean. Then a band of citizens discovered super-toxic goo seeping from the ground
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – June 21, 2007
The sweating point man leads a small group up the dusty inclines of Runkle Canyon. This undeveloped swath of chaparral near the town of Simi [...]
TOXIC ODDS
How many cancer deaths are too many? The City of Los Angeles finally sues feds over inadequate cleanup of Rocketdyne
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – November 4, 2004
Last week, the City of Los Angeles launched an historic lawsuit against the Department of Energy (DOE) over its cleanup of Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), an [...]
PAY DIRT
Gov. Schwarzenegger signs Kuehl bill to clean up Rocketdyne to Superfund standards; Boeing agrees to pay for remediation and donate lab to State for parkland
EnviroReporter.com — October 13, 2007
By Michael Collins
A decades-long battle over Boeing’s massive Santa Susana Field Laboratory came to a historic climax on Friday as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that [...]
State Senator Sheila Kuehl Interview
The EnviroReporter.com interview
October 26, 2007
California State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) has long been in the spotlight, first as a child actress best known for her irrepressible Zelda Gilroy character in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. The popular show’s four year run began in 1959 and starred Bob Denver, Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld. [...]
“David can actually slay Goliath”
Sounding off over Rocketdyne cleanup milestone – Pros & Con
Cal/EPA Secretary Linda Adams
“I’d like to thank our partners for their tireless efforts. U.S. EPA, community members, Boeing, and local and state elected officials continue to be valuable partners in our efforts to plan and implement site cleanup.”
Louise Rishoff, District Director for Assemblymember Julia Brownley (Assembly [...]
State Keeps Rocketdyne Cleanup Control
In an historic move to maintain California’s control of the costly cleanup of the former Rocketdyne lab in the hills between the Simi and San Fernando valleys, Cal/EPA Secretary Linda Adams said late yesterday that the agency would oppose federal Superfund listing for the radiologically and chemically-polluted 2,850 acre site.
Runkle Canyon
RUNKLE CANYON LATEST NEWS (32+ POSTS)
EnviroReporter.com
The latest information regarding this 1,595-acre KB Homes development in Simi Valley, CA, that shows indications of being polluted by the lethal radionuclide Strontium-90.
RUNKLE CANYON TIMELINE
This broad picturesque gorge used to be a working ranch used for growing grain and walnuts. That was before the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, commonly [...]
NEIGHBORHOOD THREAT
Runkle Canyon is poised to be Simi Valley’s newest neighborhood. But did the city misinterpret the risk of radioactive material in the ground?
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – March 10, 2005
Cattle graze on verdant hills as winter winds whip through the branches of centuries-old oaks on Runkle Canyon. Shrubby mulefat and willow scrub sway in [...]
Runkle Canyon Geocon I & Limited Sampling – 9/06/05
(Click here to see Geocon report on the DTSC website)
P. 5/150: “Analytical results of surface water samples collected from East and West Seeps in Fishtail Area that are not produced in a report. Samples were collected by Miller Brooks on April 5, 2005.”
P. 7/150: “Perchlorate was detected at a concentration of 0.33 micrograms per liter (μg/l) in [...]
Critical Runkle Canyon documents
This timeline presents an analysis of information generated by licensed laboratories that should trip DTSC guidelines to precipitate further soil, surface water and subsurface water testing in Runkle Canyon. This information was submitted to DTSC on July 3, 2008.
* A small flag on the bottom represents an event that can’t be seen with the current [...]
Rocketdyne
ROCKETDYNE LATEST NEWS (Dozens of Posts)
Comprehensive coverage of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, home of the nation’s worst meltdown and astronomical contamination.
ROCKETDYNE PHOTO GALLERY
Photographs and maps of Rocketdyne then and now.
SELECTED ARTICLES & SERIES:
BOEING’S MELTDOWN MAKEOVER
EnviroReporter.com – December 10, 2012
An ongoing investigation begun in 2008 uncovers Boeing “media campaign” to portray lab as [...]
Simi Valley supports Supplemental EIR for Runkle Canyon
The Simi Valley City Council indicated “support” for a new Runkle Canyon Supplemental Environmental Impact Report after the Radiation Rangers’ presentation at milestone meeting. More environmental tests were also ordered by State EPA of developer KB Home. DTSC’s Norm Riley said that he would review 2007 heavy metals tests of Runkle creek by the City and by the Radiation Rangers.
