Rocketdyne Report
Re “Rocketdyne Report a Beginning,” Ventura County editorials, Nov. 21.
This sad beginning proves once again that the fox can’t be trusted to guard the henhouse! The report by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry finding no link between the Rocketdyne / Boeing Santa Susanna Field Laboratory pollution and surrounding community health problems (cancer clusters) is shocking! However, ATSD chose not to do independent studies but rather to accept without question Rocketdyne’s version of data that may have nothing to do with reality!
The fact is this report reviews only information provided by the polluters: Rocketdyne (now Boeing), the Department of Defense and NASA. Furthermore, ATSD only looked at data concerning a one-mile radius from the lab (fewer than 3,000 people); 500,000 people live within a five-mile radius of the lab.
Please, contact Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein to demand that independent consultants meet with local residents and get on with independent soil, surface and ground water tests for Rocketdyne toxic chemicals and radioactive pollutants of surrounding properties, independent analysis of the data and independent conclusions. Neither Rocketdyne nor any federal agency that could be culpable should supervise or color this study.
SUE BOECKER
Oak Park
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