EDITORIAL CONTAMINATION CRISIS STUDIES ARE BEST EVIDENCE OF TOXIC DANGER AROUND LAB SITE.TWO studies released last week looking at cancer rates close to the Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
Separate studies by the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , and by the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. found that residents living near the former nuclear and rocket fuel research site have elevated incidences of nearly all types of cancer, with even higher occurrences of melanoma and bladder cancers. Worse, a UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX researcher said last week that the study found a ``migration'' of contamination, that chemicals from the site are spreading out, getting into the air, the ground and the water. While the biggest risk likely occurred to residents between the 1950s and 1970s, the researcher said, this migration means that current neighbors of the site as far away as two miles are still at danger from contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. soil and groundwater. The studies don't necessarily constitute a smoking gun. Indeed, there generally isn't one in cases involving environmental contamination. Rather, it's the gathering of supportive data to a certain critical mass that points to a singular conclusion. These extensive studies in addition to years of other evidence have brought us to this point. Since the Daily News nearly two decades ago revealed contamination of extremely toxic dioxins, mercury and other heavy metals heavy metals, n.pl metallic compounds, such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and nickel. Exposure to these metals has been linked to immune, kidney, and neurotic disorders. at the site formerly owned by Rocketdyne, there have been piles of worrisome data accumulating. Two earlier studies of workers at the site who handled radiation had higher cancer rates than the general public. As well, current owner Boeing has received about 50 violations for allowing contaminated runoff affecting the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. or Arroyo Simi. In December, a Grand Jury seized records pertaining to how runoff is monitored for contamination at the site. It's way too late for anyone to claim that the former research site isn't a toxic danger. The question now must be: What to do to limit any future danger? The time for studies, for violations, for fines, for hand-wringing, for wondering whether the site is unsafe are over. It's time authorities force a cleanup of the former laboratory, which they owe to the neighbors of the site who have been exposed for years. |
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