Environmental Advocacy through awareness and education for the
proper, responsible clean-up of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and
similar sites.
Home to the third worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear
work, that has largely gone unnoticed. The clean-up hasn't even begun
when the accident happened in 1959. There were many accidents and many
releases to the environment that were both accidental and intentional
in nature. Our purpose is to find new and different ways to continue to
bring the SSFL and the challenges of the clean-up to the public. By
making more people aware of the issue, we will create more public
outcry. Our research, which includes nearly 10,000 photographs of the
site, including aerial photographs and historical photographs gathered
through outreach efforts with former workers and other concerned
members of the community. We now have a community of activists writing
letters, speaking up at meetings, and asking hard and important
questions and consider this, in part, a CleanUpRocketdyne.Org
Collaboration with the community, or what we refer to as CUROC. We have traveled to Sacramento a dozen times lobbying for these efforts using
our research and evidence and now, can proudly state, that we made a
difference in the effort to pass SB990 which is now law in our state.
SB990, which was written to guarantee the proper clean-up according to
the law, must be held to the high standard it was written for. Now it's
a matter of interpretation, and so we must continue to defend the law
to its fruition. The clean-up according to the State of California of
surficial media, will be complete in 2017 and so that is our first and
most primary goal: to keep that target set properly as we move through
the clean-up process.