[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Troubled Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills [CA] cleanup plan ignores radiation and toxins"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dead for the Hills

Troubled Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills cleanup plan ignores radiation and toxins

by Michael Collins

EnviroReporter

June 30, 2016 

• High radiation, perchlorate, heavy metals left in water and soil
• Clean up plan removes unexploded munitions but that’s about it
• DTSC blows off media, garbles data, discounts dangers, angers community
• Uranium in Aerojet surface water over three times drinking limit
• Drains down Soquel Canyon Creek into Santa Ana River used for drinking
• City of Chino Hills, Aerojet options: homes or open space/cemetery

A multi-year EnviroReporter.com investigation has found that the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) plans to sign off on ‘unrestricted use’ status at the Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills (Aerojet). 

Government restrictions will end after additional munitions remediation even though site surface and subsurface water is highly radioactive. Areas of heavy metal and perchlorate contaminated soil will remain in place according to DTSC and Aerojet documents which say the levels are safe for humans and the environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2016/06/dead-for-the-hills/

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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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