From the Daily News (Los Angeles, CA):
Although officials and documents say soil or water was never tested for toxics and radioactivity, developers are poised to break ground on a 147-home project downhill from the Santa Susana Field Lab — and outraged environmental activists are demanding a review.
Approved by the city in 2001, the Sterling Homes development would build luxury houses about 1.3 miles east of the Simi Hills lab, where a partial nuclear meltdown occurred in 1959, and Boeing continues testing rocket engines.
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But documents buried deep in city archives show that the developer’s consultants based their assessment on only a visual survey of the property and never actually sampled soil or water or tested for toxic contaminants.
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