KB Home gave DTSC 41 environmental reports on Runkle Canyon and EnviroReporter.com analyzed each one and presented its 28 pages of findings to DTSC in July 2008.
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Meltdown Dustup
Worst meltdown in U.S. history happened 30 miles northwest of L.A. for two weeks from July 13-26, 1959. Meltdown spewed hundreds of times more radiation than Three Mile Island in 1979.
Sodium Reactor Experiment Meltdown
The 50th anniversary of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in U.S. history happened just outside of Los Angeles July 13-26, 1959 and still resonates today. READ “Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon – 50 Years After a Santa Susana Nuclear Accident Holds Up Land Development” in the LA Weekly where EnviroReporter.com‘s Michael […]
Sodium Reactor Experiment 6 – Demolition
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 […]
Waxman Document 30
Exclusive 2019 Update: VICTORY AT THE VA – West LA Veterans Administration master plan protects old nuclear dump from development While this document reverts back to the original characterization of the dump that made it into the draft PricewaterhouseCoopers report, there are some interesting differences. This web page displays notes […]
Questions for Mr. Paul K. Chrencik of PricewaterhouseCoopers
Submitted by Michael Collins on Nov. 17, 2005 1. What is your title as the principle for PwC on the CARES project? What does your work entail? 2. The “Stage 1 Summary Report Appendix, Site: West Los Angeles” 129pp PDF document (“report”) dated September 13, 2005 was “produced under the […]
ROCKETDYNE RUNAROUND
By Michael Collins LA Weekly – January 11, 2000 This week, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an unprecedented invitation to community activists to tour three former Rocketdyne nuclear buildings to observe an environmental survey for radioactive contamination. The media was invited as well to the site in the […]
REAL HOT PROPERTY
A popular Brentwood dog park on Veterans Administration property is build over an old radioactive waste dump that may soon be unearthed by proposed development. by Michael Collins EnviroReporter.com – May 18, 2006 SUVs and luxury sedans glide into the Barrington Dog Park parking lot just south of Sunset Boulevard […]
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
Veterans Administration begins testing for radioactive waste beneath popular dog park and surrounding areas including Brentwood School By Michael Collins Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – December 7, 2006 In direct response to a five-year CityBeat and EnviroReporter.com investigation into a biomedical nuclear waste dump in Brentwood, the Veterans Administration has begun […]
WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS
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 Ventura County Reporter – March 17, 2005 Cattle graze on verdant hills as winter winds whip through the branches of centuries-old oaks on Runkle […]
HOT ZONE
Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory was on the frontlines of the Cold War. Now some who lived near “The Hill” say they share two distinctions: chronic illness and the unswerving belief that the lab caused it By Michael Collins Los Angeles magazine – June 1998 ON A HOT JULY NIGHT […]
NEIGHBORHOOD THREAT – Annotated
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 […]
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 […]
Analysis of 41 Reports KB Home supplied to DTSC
2019 UPDATE EnviroReporter.com analysis of Runkle Canyon documents and tests – KB Home-supplied 41 reports This timeline analyzes 41 reports that KB Home supplied to DTSC as part of their “Voluntary Cleanup Agreement” of Runkle Canyon in December 2007. DTSC is the lead agency to oversee a new agreement that […]
Massive Santa Susana Lab Contamination Deliberately Hidden Since 1981
Groundwater contamination coverup continues with highest readings ever in Brandeis-Bardin and Southern Buffer Zone
Brandeis-Bardin Groundwater Toxins Hit Historic Highs
Santa Susana Field Lab radiation & chemicals plague popular Jewish camp as Los Angeles Water Board prepares to end SSFL surface water testing
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