[CPEO-MEF] Santa Susana Field Lab (CA) pollutants found at Sage Ranch

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Field Lab pollutants found at Sage Ranch
State officials order cleanup of contaminants at the site

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
November 8, 2007

The discovery of suspicious debris in a streambed in a park abutting the 
Santa Susana Field Laboratory by a trio of community activists has led 
the state's toxics department to order the lab's owners to clean it up.

The cleanup and removal of 8,500 cubic yards of debris contaminated with 
asbestos, antimony and cancer-causing polyaromatic hydrocarbons, or 
PAHs, could start as early as Friday, said Norman Riley, the Department 
of Toxic Substances Control's project director for cleanup at the 
laboratory in the hills south of Simi Valley.

On Nov. 1, DTSC issued an order to Boeing and NASA, which owns about 450 
acres of the Field Lab, to take action on debris and contamination on 
Sage Ranch.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/nov/08/field-lab-pollutants-found-at-sage-ranch/ 


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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