Truth or Fiction: Destroying Oak Trees

Did you know there has already been some soil remediation at the Santa Susana Field Lab? It was an emergency order (called an iterum measure) to cleanup contamination that posed a direct threat to the community. Really, all of the contamination is a direct threat to our community, but in this case the contamination near Outfalls 8 and 9 was getting into the LA River, so NASA was forced to cleanup a small part of their area by the LA Waterboard.

The exact area to be remediated was also the location of an old-growth oak tree grove.

NASA, Boeing, the Department of Energy and even the DTSC have all said, or at least heavily implied, that the AOC cleanup would devastate the environment at the SSFL beyond repair. But NASA has already remediated an area at the SSFL with old-growth oak trees and didn’t damage them- at all!

That’s why we need to keep pushing for the cleanup and demanding that the responsible parties do a good job of it- they’re capable of it. They have the finances to do it. They’ve legally agreed to do it.

Read more about the way NASA saved the oak trees during the cleanup of two small areas at the Santa Susana Field Lab: http://www.acmela.org/dontfearthecleanup.html

I am sharing this with permission from the ACME LA website author, William Bowling Preston.