by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
Monday, May. 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Kaiser Executives and Bosses have spent over $1 billion on a medical complex at Downey, California. Should these executives be charged with criminal activity for building a hospital on a superfund toxic dump site where workers and patients have been contaminated?
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Kaiser Built Hospital On Toxic Superfund Dump Site In Downey California-Should Kaiser Bosses/Execs Be Charged With A Crime Against Their Workers And Patients?
Summary
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Site Information
CLEANUP STATUS
CERTIFIED / OPERATION & MAINTENANCE AS OF 11/4/2004
SITE TYPE: VOLUNTARY CLEANUP
NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST: NO
ACRES: 165 ACRES
APN: 6256-004-019
CLEANUP OVERSIGHT AGENCIES:
RWQCB 4 - LOS ANGELES - LEAD
DTSC - SITE CLEANUP PROGRAM - LEAD
ENVIROSTOR ID:
19370366
SITE CODE:
301157
SPECIAL PROGRAM:
VOLUNTARY CLEANUP PROGRAM
FUNDING:
SITE PROPONENT
ASSEMBLY DISTRICT:
58
SENATE DISTRICT:
27
Regulatory Profile
PAST USE(S) THAT CAUSED CONTAMINATION
AEROSPACE ROCKET TESTING/LAUNCH, AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING/MAINTENANCE, MANUFACTURING - INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY, RESEARCH - AEROSPACE
POTENTIAL CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN
ARSENIC
TETRACHLOROETHYLENE (PCE)
TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE)
POTENTIAL MEDIA AFFECTED
INDOOR AIR, SOIL VAPOR, OTHER GROUNDWATER AFFECTED (USES OTHER THAN DRINKING WATER), SOIL
Site History
Until 1929, the 165-acre tract of land that comprises the former NASA Industrial Plant Site was used for crop production. After 1929, a conventional aircraft manufacturing facility was sited on the land. In the 1960's the Site was used for research development of vehicles suitable for space travel. NASA ceased its operation at the Site in 1997. In 2002, a Voluntary Cleanup Agreement was entered into by DTSC and the site proponent, Kaiser Health Foundation, to conduct a Preliminary Endangerment Assessment for Parcels II and IV of the Site. These parcels are proposed for a hospital complex development. Results from the PEA indicated that a VOC plume from an offsite source was migrating beneath the proposed hospital complex. In November 2004, DTSC approved the PEA Report provided that institutional controls be incorporated into the development. Additionally, the Regional Water Quality Control Board had implemented a remedy for the offsite VOC plume.
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