Santa
Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Valley and Canoga Park, California:
A project was undertaken to
quantify air emissions from three rocket engine manufacturing and
testing sites located near Los Angeles. We
developed emission inventories for the years 1955 to
1995 for three Rocketdyne facilities in southern
California:
the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) near Simi Valley
as well as two other facilities in Canoga Park.
Emission
sources included rocket
engine test stands, burning of waste fuels and other chemicals in an
open burn pit, cooling towers, degreasers and similar
solvent-using equipment, and the chrome anodizing and plating
operations. Emissions included trichloroethylene (TCE),
dioxins, hydrazine, metals, polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs),
benzene, formaldehyde, dioxins and furans, and hexavalent chromium
(Cr+6). Numerous chemicals were also emitted as part of a
"toxic
chemical cloud" that formed when contaminated cooling
water evaporated
at the test stands during the rocket engine tests.
The use of
"reclaimed" water contaminated with a variety of fuels, solvents and
miscellaneous chemicals for cooling rocket engine
test
stands, the open burning of waste fuels and other chemicals, and
inadequate emission controls led to the uncontrolled release
of
chemical carcinogens into the atmosphere and unnecessarily high
emission rates of trichloroethylene and hexavalent chromium.
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Phone:
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