An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is supposed to inform the decision makers as to how contaminated a site is and which clean up standards are most protective of human health AND the environment. You are supposed to make an EIS BEFORE you settle on a remedy.
These two graphics were removed from the NASA Draft EIS. Originally, they were supposed to list 5 alternatives for the clean up. They are supposed to pick the one that is protective of human health AND the environment.
Political pressure forced NASA to sign agreements that effectively circumvented CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) and determined a remedy BEFORE they did an EIS. So the political powers forced NASA to write an abbreviated EIS that ignores other, less impactful remedies that are just as protective of human health, but would save vital habitat.
I've been told I do not want a clean up... not true. The 2007 Consent Orders signed by all the Responsible Parties Cleans the site to Suburban Residential Standards. Suburban Residential is a standard that we all have accepted as safe. its official definition is:
Assumes that an adult or child could live on the remediated site 24 hours
per day, 350 days per year, for 30+ years without adverse health impacts.
That's where you live.
I fully support the 2007 Consent orders.
The difference in contamination between the two standards pictured, is no worse than your neighborhood gas station. And the cost is substantially larger. We are seeing 500,000 cubic yards of material in Area II alone that will be hauled down Woolsey Canyon through Lake Manor and Chatsworth to the 118 freeway.
Area IV, Operated by DOE will have much more dirt than that hauled away. Total soil removal at Area IV is still being calculated and validated. I'm told it may be over ONE MILLION cu/yds. We may be looking at close to TWO MILLION cu/yds of material hauled away from the entire site. They are still making the calculations and validating them. NASAs estimates have been validated by DTSC..
Each truck holds approximately 20 cu/yds. How many trucks you say? Do the math. That's 100,000 truckloads rumbling past my home. If you count the trucks driving up to SSFL to pick up their load, AND the trucks carrying "clean" backfill to mitigate the damage caused by these agreements... it's close to 400,000 passes through the community of Lake Manor. Most of it will be so low level that the diesel particulates from the trucks, hauling the stuff away will be a larger cancer risk to the people living here than the stuff they're hauling away.
NASA estimates the cost of a Background clean up is over $200 million! Suburban Residential would cost $78 million. Our community has been sold a bill of goods.
YOU are not being told the truth. Its time to stand up!
Stay tuned!
