SSFL STUDIES

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contamination studies

  • U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, 2007: Preliminary Assessment – Site Inspection Report is an excellent primer on the pollution problems of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. “Multiple operations at the SSFL over the last six decades have resulted in the contamination of surface and subsurface environmental media by various hazardous substances,” the report notes.

  • SSFL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY’S N. S. FUKIKAWA, 1981: SSFL Historical Volume – Area 1 Burn Pit, a 65-page report, among other things, shows exactly where this burn pit was: right next to a drainage channel that leads eventually to the Los Angeles River.

Disposal, Transportation, and Waste

health studies

Offsite studies

  • VENTURA COUNTY SUPERVISOR LINDA PARKS, 2004: Two Mile Testing Requirement proposed to require developments located within a 2-mile radius of a present or former rocket test site to perform soil and water tests for perchlorate and trichloroethylene (TCE), among other contaminants and substances.

water Studies

NOTE: SSFL INDependent Studies

These studies were conducted independently of Boeing, NASA, or the Department of Energy’s influence. The studies on this page were done by scientists with high ethical standards and reputations for excellence in their relative fields and were created with transparent practices and best-technology methodologies.

Despite this, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the SSFL’s regulating agency, has rejected these studies as they contradict the conclusions by Boeing, NASA, and the Dept. of Energy’s paid-for-science Studies. The DTSC rigidly maintains that “Contamination from the SSFL does not come offsite in amounts that could cause harm,” a conclusion that protects them from the consequences of the irrevocable damage they have caused to the environment, people, water, and the wildlife near the site.