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HOT PROPERTY

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Simi Valley City Council Excerpts – October 22, 2007

The Ventura County Reporter cover story “Dirty Business – New law cleaning up Rocketdyne for parkland may not stop adjacent KB Home development pushed by Simi Valley City Council” included quotes culled from these selected excerpts. The speakers, who were limited to three minutes apiece in public comment, included “Toxic Terry” […]

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 […]

MILLION DOLLAR MAYBE

VA commits to further Brentwood nuke dump study, though uncertainty remains By Michael Collins Los Angeles CityBeat – September 13, 2007 A full-blown $1 million study of a forgotten biomedical nuclear waste site in Brentwood will be done to more fully explore concerns raised in a preliminary report, it was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

By Michael Collins Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – July 22, 2004 The following new readings were recently taken from test sites on the Rocketdyne property. The devil is in the details. B-1 jet testing area: – solvent (PCE) in soils – 2,000 parts per billion (ppb) – solvent (PCE) in soil […]

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 [KB Home’s Runkle Canyon development is now […]

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 […]

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 […]