hi. my name is denise duffield. it s okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? okay, let s go to disneyland! oh, yeah! are you coming? i m coming too. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient state, white for chemotherapy. this is what you earned the first month. i d like to share with you what she s earned over the last two times fighting
in the canyons of southern california, the engine sometimes called a rocket, sometimes called a power plant, sometimes the booster is bond. and we all lived in knowing that there were rocket tests we used to have a big booms, and we would see, like, mushroom clouds above the facility. i would play outside with my friends until it got dark. i d be in the cul-de-sac, and then we could hear those auroras. in california s santa susana mountains, rocketdyne engineers have graded america s largest propulsion field laboratory. the hole was a valley with a shutter just go [inaudible] [noise] tens of thousands of rockets passed and those huge blooms of
i d be in the cul-de-sac, and we d all look up, and we could hear those roars. in california santa susana mountains rocketdyne engineers had created america s largest prupulgz field laboratory. the whole of the valley would just shudder. launch is go. tens of thousands of rocket tests, and those would produce huge plumes of contamination that would be spreading a substantial distance. engines poured forth their pillars of flames. over 30,000 rocket engine tests, and a lot of the chemical contamination on the site is a result of that. they ended up flushing out rocket test engines with a very toxic solvent called tce, hundreds of thousands of gallons, leaving half a million