CRITICS CLAIM INCIDENT PROVES ROCKETDYNE CLEANUP UNRELIABLE.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer Members of a panel charged with monitoring the cleanup of Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
At the quarterly meeting of the Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, company officials said they have fired Transglobal Environmental Geochemistry geochemistry, study of the chemical changes on the earth. More specifically, it is the study of the absolute and relative abundances of chemical elements in the minerals, soils, ores, rocks, water, and atmosphere of the earth and the distribution and movement of , a subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. hired to conduct 375 soil vapor samples at the mountaintop moun·tain·top n. The summit of a mountain. test lab, the site of a $55 million cleanup operation. Rocketdyne officials said they terminated TEG's services last week after the release of a memo from state regulators that said the company co-owner admitted fabricating instrument inspections during a 1995 test operation in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , said Rocketdyne project leader Art Lennox. To critics of the cleanup operation, the charge that scientists had once falsified their results is proof that the company responsible for contamination should not be trusted with the cleanup. |
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