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EnviroReporter.com submits Runkle analysis to DTSC

Jul 6, 2008

EnviroReporter.com completes analysis of thousands of pages of reports submitted by developer KB Home to Department of Toxic Substances Control as part of Voluntary Cleanup Agreement signed in April.

WHITE BLIGHT exposes Runkle chromium problem

Jun 26, 2008

WHITE BLIGHT exposes Runkle chromium problem in Ventura County Reporter. Terry Metheny hands out papers at DOE data gap meeting that evening in Simi Valley.

DTSC test of white substance reveals high chromium

Apr 30, 2008

Riley sends Serafine test results of the white substance. Test indicates high levels of chromium, nickel, molybdenum, potassium and iron.

REASSESSING RUNKLE addresses KB/DTSC agreement

Apr 24, 2008

Collins pens article about this for the Ventura County Reporter entitled “REASSESSING RUNKLE - KB Homes and State agree to cooperate on troubled Simi canyon.”

KB Homes and DTSC sign agreement

Apr 14, 2008

KB Homes and the Department of Toxic Substances Control sign a “Standard Agreement for participating under California’s Land Reuse and Revitalization Act (CLRRA) Program,” which is intended “for th...

White substance given to DTSC's Norm Riley

Mar 27, 2008

Southwick and Serafine give white substance to DTSC's Norm Riley at SSFL workgroup meeting. Riley says he will have it tested.

Mysterious white substance discovered in Runkle

Mar 26, 2008

Rev. Southwick and Frank Serafine discover mysterious white substance in Runkle Canyon.

DOWN THE TEST TUBES relates radiation test concerns

Jan 17, 2008

The Ventura County Reporter publishes “DOWN THE TEST TUBES - KB Homes’ Runkle Canyon radiation tests questioned as more groundwater pollution is found and developer negotiates cleanup agreement wit...

Rev. Southwick writes City regarding strontium results

Jan 7, 2008

In reaction to reports in the local media that KB Homes and the city’s strontium-90 tests had come back showing extremely low numbers, Rev. John Southwick writes to the city of his concerns. “Are w...

KB Homes begins Voluntary Cleanup Agreement process, provides DTSC with 41 reports

Dec 15, 2007

Mid-December, 2007: KB Homes approaches the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control and begins negotiations on a “Voluntary Cleanup Agreement” for Runkle Canyon. As part of that agreement, K...

DIRTY BUSINESS relates Rocketdyne clean-up and Runkle

Nov 1, 2007

Cover story appears in the Ventura County Reporter entitled “DIRTY BUSINESS - New law cleaning up Rocketdyne for parkland may not stop adjacent KB Home development pushed by Simi Valley City Counci...

Residents protest at City Council meeting

Oct 22, 2007

Residents descend on Simi Valley City Council meeting, alarmed at the increasingly harsh rhetoric of the council and Radiation Rangers’ revelation that four out of five council members had taken ca...

KB Homes hires Dade Moeller to test for strontium-90

Oct 4, 2007

October 4-5, 2007 - KB Homes hires controversial lab Dade Moeller to sample around 60 Runkle Canyon soil specimens, which are split with the city, and have them tested by Teledyne Brown Engineering...

SPIN CYCLE takes on City's claim that Runkle report is clean

Aug 23, 2007

Simi Council sells disturbing Runkle Canyon pollution report as clean

VC Star and Simi Valley Acorn declare Runkle water safe

Aug 16, 2007

“Soil from canyon not dangerous, study says,” says Ventura County Star headline of city’s test results. A day later, the Simi Valley Acorn weighs in with “Runkle Canyon soil and water labeled 'safe...