On August 19, 2006,Terry Matheney and the crew from Cheap Shots Aerial Photography send up a 15-foot long dirigible over the canyon equipped with a rotating high-resolution camera. Runkle Canyon neighbors are determined to keep an ‘eye in the sky’ on the broad picturesque gorge. 24 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne […]
In August 2006, new KB Homes fencing went up at the entrance to Runkle Canyon, patrolled by an around the clock security guard. The reaction was swift and concerned residents addressed an August 21, 2006 Simi Valley City Council meeting including Patricia Coryell and Rev. John Southwick pictured below. 24 […]
After the Los Angeles CityBeat & ValleyBeat cover story “The Radiation Rangers” came out June 21, 2007, the City of Simi Valley decided to go up Runkle Canyon [now called Arroyo Heights at the Woodlands] and test it for itself. This testing for Title 22 hazardous metals, which includes the […]
Radiation Rangers head for Runkle Canyon with Pat-Chem’s Ron Lovato May 18, 2007. 24 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting June 1998 – June 2022
24 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting June 1998 – June 2022
On March 26, 2008, Radiation Rangers “Fearless Frank” Serafine and “The Good Reverend John” Southwick visited Runkle Canyon and found a strange sight – thousands of white rocks and what appeared to be some kind of white evaporate or precipitate covering large swaths of land. Southwick called EnviroReporter.com by cell […]
During the debate over whether Runkle Canyon’s surface water is a drinking water source for Simi Valley, a number of folks have insisted that it isn’t, including members of the Department of Toxic Substances Control. Indeed, Runkle Canyon drains into the Arroyo Simi which replenishes the aquifer under Simi Valley […]
On November 17, 2008, the DTSC’s Norm Riley, project head for the Runkle Canyon voluntary cleanup agreed to with KB Home, gave a presentation about the site to the Simi Valley City Council and community. The meeting was televised and streamed online. The Radiation Rangers also gave a PowerPoint presentation […]
24 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting June 1998 – June 2022
24 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting June 1998 – June 2022
(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023
JIM GARNER WORKED IN THE LATE 70S for a company; called Brownyard Steel Fabrication, which was doing contract work for Rocketdyne at the Santa Susana lab, we wrote in “Hot Zone,” a 1998 Los Angeles magazine cover story. He recalls standing in a steel vault 60 feet underground, tearing out […]
(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023
(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023
(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023
(Click on images for larger photos.) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023
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