This week Boeing will start removing radioactive soil from site near populated Simi Valley, West Hills and Chatsworth.
For decades, a 6-acre site known as the “burn pit” at the Santa Susana Field Lab was used by Rocketdyne workers who dumped large amounts of radioactive pollutants, chemicals and explosives into the open pit. Now state officials are pressuring Boeing Co. to remediate and clean up the site. Excavation of soil at the burn pit will start on Jan. 31 and continue through June 2024.
Along with other activists, Hirsch worried that weak toxic clean-up standards set by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control for the burn pit — and for the entire Santa Susana Field Lab area — would allow Boeing to preserve, rather than clean up, the area’s toxic contamination. For decades, a 6-acre site known as the “burn pit” at the Santa Susana Field Lab was used by Rocketdyne workers who dumped large amounts of radioactive pollutants, chemicals and explosives into the open pit. Now state officials are pressuring Boeing Co. to remediate and clean up the site. Excavation of soil at the burn pit will start on Jan. 31 and continue through June 2024.
The open pit is located in “Area I” on the hilly land owned together by Boeing, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy. All three parties are responsible for remediating the Santa Susana Field Lab, according to a 2007 agreement the parties signed that requires them to clean up the field to the level that people can safely live there and grow vegetables.
Before leaving the Santa Susana site, all trucks will be inspected and undergo “a visual check of tire conditions, brake pads, latches, properly secured covering, placarding, and hauling documents,” according to the DTSC notice. The removal of tainted soil will continue for six months until June. He added that “no waste will be transported to, and disposed of at, any Treatment Storage Disposal Facilities in the city of Simi Valley.”
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