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Heavy metals in Runkle Canyon Creek on Thanksgiving
2006 - two tests found arsenic, nickel and vanadium. This
is not the area where chromium was found in a white salt
evaporate tested by the Department of Toxic Substances
Control in 2008. The white material had low heavy metals.
(photo courtesy of EnviroReporter.com)
2006 - two tests found arsenic, nickel and vanadium. This
is not the area where chromium was found in a white salt
evaporate tested by the Department of Toxic Substances
Control in 2008. The white material had low heavy metals.
(photo courtesy of EnviroReporter.com)
| Always around Never square Look for us We'll be there -Radiation Rangers- |
| "Perchlorate Patty" Coryell on YouTube talking Runkle |
| RUNKLE CANYON REALITY CHECK |
We have come up with the Radiation Rangers Runkle Canyon Response Plan Comments, 58 pages of them, in fact.You will be amazed at what we have
found: two mountains of mining tailings filled with a poisonous tar substance that the developer's contractor (falsely) claims will be "mass graded" away;
an explanation of why we found chromium-infused rocks in the canyon that may be from abandoned barrels maybe dumped from neighboring
Rocketdyne; a bogus and dangerous plan by KB Home's controversial lab, Dade Moeller, to try to pass off unsound science as a way to retest Runkle
Canyon for the deadly strontium 90, which causes leukemia and other cancers; and a plan to let KB Home go in and have at that
benzo(a)antracene-impacted tar in violation of City of Simi Valley Municipal Code and State environmental law! And that's not all. Click on our photo
below to read what is going on.
Look below at the barrels of untested crud that left polluted soil, barrels right where we found those chromium rocks. And also check out the public
comments of other folks who have carefully looked at this faulty Response Plan like Bill Bowling of the ACME-LA Aerospace Cancer Museum of
Education and D'Lanie Blaze of The AeroSpace.org and you will be astonished.
Thanks to Rick Brausch and his team at DTSC for allowing us this chance to express ourselves in a way that the City of Simi Valley City Council and the
residents of this fair city will understand. That is if they want to understand and we are confident that if they don't want to, they'll have to. These are
comments that now go into a legal record. They cannot be ignored. DTSC will answer each and everyone of them so stay tuned...
found: two mountains of mining tailings filled with a poisonous tar substance that the developer's contractor (falsely) claims will be "mass graded" away;
an explanation of why we found chromium-infused rocks in the canyon that may be from abandoned barrels maybe dumped from neighboring
Rocketdyne; a bogus and dangerous plan by KB Home's controversial lab, Dade Moeller, to try to pass off unsound science as a way to retest Runkle
Canyon for the deadly strontium 90, which causes leukemia and other cancers; and a plan to let KB Home go in and have at that
benzo(a)antracene-impacted tar in violation of City of Simi Valley Municipal Code and State environmental law! And that's not all. Click on our photo
below to read what is going on.
Look below at the barrels of untested crud that left polluted soil, barrels right where we found those chromium rocks. And also check out the public
comments of other folks who have carefully looked at this faulty Response Plan like Bill Bowling of the ACME-LA Aerospace Cancer Museum of
Education and D'Lanie Blaze of The AeroSpace.org and you will be astonished.
Thanks to Rick Brausch and his team at DTSC for allowing us this chance to express ourselves in a way that the City of Simi Valley City Council and the
residents of this fair city will understand. That is if they want to understand and we are confident that if they don't want to, they'll have to. These are
comments that now go into a legal record. They cannot be ignored. DTSC will answer each and everyone of them so stay tuned...
You remember
"White Blight -
Runkle Canyon's
Chromium
Conundrum,"
where we found
chromium-covered
rocks that DTSC
had tested? We
found those rocks in
the same area as
these dumped
drums in Runkle
Canyon.
"White Blight -
Runkle Canyon's
Chromium
Conundrum,"
where we found
chromium-covered
rocks that DTSC
had tested? We
found those rocks in
the same area as
these dumped
drums in Runkle
Canyon.
How do we know this?
Because the chromium rocks were
found in the same places as these
drums, that's how.
found in the same places as these
drums, that's how.
But where did we get these photos and
maps that told us this? From DTSC's
Runkle Canyon website of data that was
supplied to them by KB Home!
maps that told us this? From DTSC's
Runkle Canyon website of data that was
supplied to them by KB Home!
| KB Home build on a bombing range?YES! WATCH ABC-News 20-20 segment! |
February 20, 2009 - As you know from having read what is now on our Index 2 page, the Department of Toxic Substances Control has held a public
meeting and has asked for Public Comment on the Runkle Canyon Response Plan presented to DTSC by would-be Runkle Canyon developer KB
Home/Lennar. We had that January 28, 2009 Public Meeting that you can read about from articles in "The Latest News" box below, including Michael
Collins'
meeting and has asked for Public Comment on the Runkle Canyon Response Plan presented to DTSC by would-be Runkle Canyon developer KB
Home/Lennar. We had that January 28, 2009 Public Meeting that you can read about from articles in "The Latest News" box below, including Michael
Collins'
| February 19, 2009 Ventura County Reporter article, "'Simi, we have a problem' - Runkle Canyon radiation report spells trouble" where Collins notes that not a single Simi Valley City Council Member, including Mayor Paul Miller, deigned to be at the DTSC special meeting even though the Runkle Canyon radiation, chemical and heavy metal contamination is one of the greatest possible threats to the City of Simi Valley! |
| Straight Shootin' - Simi Style Radiation Rangers have Runkle Canyon covered! |
April 22, 2009 - That is indeed "The Good Reverend John" Southwick of the Radiation Rangers riding high in a B-17 Flying Fortress and manning a
machine gun in the skies over Southern California. On Earth Day, Rev. John especially knows that our battle to stop KB Home from building hundreds of
houses on polluted land next to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is far from over. Every day requires vigilance to make sure that the controversial
developer not only doesn't build a community on tainted ground, but that it also lives up to the promises it has recently made to the government and to
the people of Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, that it will completely remove cancer-causing benzo(a)anthracene goo from
Runkle Canyon. Mountains of it.
"Leave it to Simi Valley’s Radiation Rangers to uncover more than just contamination in Runkle Canyon, where KB Home hopes to build 465 homes in
the shadow of radioactive Rocketdyne," reads the latest Ventura County Reporter article on our struggle begun in 2004 when "Perchlorate Patty"
Coryell first objected to the project's phony Environmental Impact Report before the Simi Valley City Council which went ahead and approved the
project. "The citizens group has discovered that the developer has dug itself into a hole of its own making in its Response Plan to clean up the canyon
by promising to remove two giant mountains of slag material that are leaking pools of toxic sludge."
“KB Home has promised to remove those two mountains of goo, which they never said they’d do before,” says Ranger “Toxic Terry” Matheney in the
article entitled, appropriately enough, "Mountains of Goo - KB Home promises mass grading of Runkle Canyon."
Mass grading? KB Home actually promising to clean up Runkle Canyon by mass-grading two slag mountains? Read the article and read on below for
more...
machine gun in the skies over Southern California. On Earth Day, Rev. John especially knows that our battle to stop KB Home from building hundreds of
houses on polluted land next to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is far from over. Every day requires vigilance to make sure that the controversial
developer not only doesn't build a community on tainted ground, but that it also lives up to the promises it has recently made to the government and to
the people of Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, that it will completely remove cancer-causing benzo(a)anthracene goo from
Runkle Canyon. Mountains of it.
"Leave it to Simi Valley’s Radiation Rangers to uncover more than just contamination in Runkle Canyon, where KB Home hopes to build 465 homes in
the shadow of radioactive Rocketdyne," reads the latest Ventura County Reporter article on our struggle begun in 2004 when "Perchlorate Patty"
Coryell first objected to the project's phony Environmental Impact Report before the Simi Valley City Council which went ahead and approved the
project. "The citizens group has discovered that the developer has dug itself into a hole of its own making in its Response Plan to clean up the canyon
by promising to remove two giant mountains of slag material that are leaking pools of toxic sludge."
“KB Home has promised to remove those two mountains of goo, which they never said they’d do before,” says Ranger “Toxic Terry” Matheney in the
article entitled, appropriately enough, "Mountains of Goo - KB Home promises mass grading of Runkle Canyon."
Mass grading? KB Home actually promising to clean up Runkle Canyon by mass-grading two slag mountains? Read the article and read on below for
more...
Read more about these barrels, and the chromium rocks, on pages 9-17
of the Radiation Rangers Response Plan Comments!
of the Radiation Rangers Response Plan Comments!
October 21, 2009 - Just up ahead about 1 1/2 miles up Runkle Canyon's entrance in Simi Valley
California is the Mystery Spot. That's where someone later named Hawkeye spotted something nasty
looking in the creek. The Radiation Rangers came up Runkle Canyon to take samples of the Mystery
Spot and its funny looking water. And sure enough, we found heavy metals like vanadium and arsenic and
nickel. Then the city of Simi Valley retested and the results were worse.
Now the Department of Toxic Substances Control, under new leadership, should make sure that KB Home
retests this canyon for heavy metals coming down the hill from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
because EnviroReporter.com just figured out the secret of the Mystery Spot... just hit the link to the
right to find out more...
California is the Mystery Spot. That's where someone later named Hawkeye spotted something nasty
looking in the creek. The Radiation Rangers came up Runkle Canyon to take samples of the Mystery
Spot and its funny looking water. And sure enough, we found heavy metals like vanadium and arsenic and
nickel. Then the city of Simi Valley retested and the results were worse.
Now the Department of Toxic Substances Control, under new leadership, should make sure that KB Home
retests this canyon for heavy metals coming down the hill from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
because EnviroReporter.com just figured out the secret of the Mystery Spot... just hit the link to the
right to find out more...
| Runkle Canyon's Mystery Spot |
| Runkle Canyon Robber Baron Convicted! Former KB Home chief Bruce Karatz guilty of four felonies |
April 21, 2010 - The man ultimately responsible for buying the Runkle Canyon property for over $30 million in 2006, Bruce Karatz, was convicted today
of four felonies for a stock option backdating scheme that illegally netted him $6.6 million. Now Karatz, who ran KB Home which bought the 1,595-acre
canyon from former developer, Peter Kiesecker, faces 80 years in prison for his crimes. Karatz embodied KB Home all the while lying to his
shareholders, company and the Security and Exchange Commission. Now he is going to pay the piper but we're still stuck with a Runkle Canyon
development still in the works.
The totally unrepentant Karatz continues to deny his guilt and issued a self-inflating statement saying that "I will continue to get strength from the
support of my family, including my wife, children and grandchildren, good friends and former colleagues. And while this is personally a challenging time,
what I continue to value from my time as the CEO of KB Home is the fact that we successfully built a strong company, created more than 5,000 good
paying jobs and executed upon a business strategy that created very, very significant shareholder value -- all resulting in KB Home being listed in 2006
as one of "America’s Most Admired Companies"."
We say hogwash. Karatz made $135.6 million in 2005 alone, the year EnviroReporter.com's Michael Collins first exposed how polluted Runkle Canyon
was and is. Only three other public company executives in the United States made more that year but that wasn't enough for Karatz, obviously. This man
who okayed buying polluted Runkle Canyon for KB Home made $227.4 million over a five year stretch but it wasn't enough for man who counts among
his friends one of KB Home's founders, Eli Broad.
A quarter of billion dollars wasn't enough for Karatz and now he faces the rest of his life in the slammer. But we, the Radiation Rangers and the
knowledgeable citizens of Simi Valley say ENOUGH! We have fought KB Home to a standstill over Runkle Canyon since 2006 and we aren't giving an
inch to the greedy profiteers that would mindlessly expose thousands of Simi and San Fernando valleys residents to untold amounts of radiation and
chemical poisons if these developers who have the Mayor and City Council in their pockets, build their 461 homes in this canyon. Not one inch!
So on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day tomorrow, we say to KB Home: CLEAN UP RUNKLE CANYON!!!
of four felonies for a stock option backdating scheme that illegally netted him $6.6 million. Now Karatz, who ran KB Home which bought the 1,595-acre
canyon from former developer, Peter Kiesecker, faces 80 years in prison for his crimes. Karatz embodied KB Home all the while lying to his
shareholders, company and the Security and Exchange Commission. Now he is going to pay the piper but we're still stuck with a Runkle Canyon
development still in the works.
The totally unrepentant Karatz continues to deny his guilt and issued a self-inflating statement saying that "I will continue to get strength from the
support of my family, including my wife, children and grandchildren, good friends and former colleagues. And while this is personally a challenging time,
what I continue to value from my time as the CEO of KB Home is the fact that we successfully built a strong company, created more than 5,000 good
paying jobs and executed upon a business strategy that created very, very significant shareholder value -- all resulting in KB Home being listed in 2006
as one of "America’s Most Admired Companies"."
We say hogwash. Karatz made $135.6 million in 2005 alone, the year EnviroReporter.com's Michael Collins first exposed how polluted Runkle Canyon
was and is. Only three other public company executives in the United States made more that year but that wasn't enough for Karatz, obviously. This man
who okayed buying polluted Runkle Canyon for KB Home made $227.4 million over a five year stretch but it wasn't enough for man who counts among
his friends one of KB Home's founders, Eli Broad.
A quarter of billion dollars wasn't enough for Karatz and now he faces the rest of his life in the slammer. But we, the Radiation Rangers and the
knowledgeable citizens of Simi Valley say ENOUGH! We have fought KB Home to a standstill over Runkle Canyon since 2006 and we aren't giving an
inch to the greedy profiteers that would mindlessly expose thousands of Simi and San Fernando valleys residents to untold amounts of radiation and
chemical poisons if these developers who have the Mayor and City Council in their pockets, build their 461 homes in this canyon. Not one inch!
So on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day tomorrow, we say to KB Home: CLEAN UP RUNKLE CANYON!!!
