NASA's Santa Susana Field Lab Clean-up

I attended NASA’s information session on their clean-up of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory last night. The session was held as an open house, so the public could come and go at will. NASA had posters with lots of photos and data at half a dozen tables. NASA representatives were at each table to explain the studies that have been done and clean-up effort.

I was quite impressed. NASA has done quite a bit of work analyzing soil, water (both surface and underground), buildings, and ecosystem impact. They are working their way through the clean-up of soil on their part of the site and water for the whole site (Boeing owns part of the land, too). They are doing good science, and remediation to the extent that they can.

It is just a shame that it has taken this long to get this started. And, that Elton Gallegly has allowed this to fester in his backyard for all these years.