The vote came a few weeks after the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, released a report showing that two highly toxic chemicals are not being monitored at the Santa Susana Field lab and potentially could leak into the Los Angeles River.
The 2,668-acre Santa Susana field is one of the nation’s most polluted areas, sitting at the headwaters of the L.A. River and surrounded by nearly 700,000 residents. The area became the site of rocket testing and a partial nuclear meltdown in the late 1950s.
