"When we went to Washington, D.C., we were able to meet with our senators and congresspeople, and they have been huge supporters of the cleanup for years," Bumstead said. Instead, they are proposing to leave as much as 98% of the contamination on-site permanently."īumstead eventually united with other mothers whose children were affected by the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, and they traveled to Washington, D.C. Boeing, NASA and the Department of Energy all signed legal agreements to clean up the site, and unfortunately, they are now trying to come out of those promises. "It was meant to be done in 2017, and the soil cleanup has not even begun. Most of it is in the groundwater and soil itself."īumstead said the Department of Toxic Substances Control is the government agency that should be regulating this cleanup. This contamination is not kept in barrels buried in a vault underground.
I think people who knew about the site assumed it was a Simi Valley problem, which is unfortunately not true due to natural erosion, rain runoff and the wind blowing through. "Working with our own self-reported data and a statistician, we believe this community is also above average for many rare pediatric cancers. "We also know that this area has a much higher breast cancer rate," she said. "Childhood cancer is just too rare."Īccording to Bumstead, an epidemiological report by the University of Michigan shows a 60% higher cancer indecent rate for people living two miles from the site. "It was not until my daughter was diagnosed with a rare type of leukemia, and we kept meeting other families in treatment at children's hospitals, that we realized this was not a coincidence," Bumstead said. Bumstead started a petition that has garnered more than 700,000 signaturesīumstead said her mortgage paperwork had a small disclaimer regarding the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, and she was told that it was nothing to worry about.According to Bumstead, an epidemiological report shows a 60% higher cancer indecent rate for people living two miles from the site.One of the film subjects is Melissa Bumstead, whose daughter was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia at age 4.
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