This site is about Kaiser Permanente Regional Medical Center in Downey, California. It is located on a SuperFund/Brownfield property that once was known as NASA Downey. It is still a SuperFund/Brownfield site and has never been evaluated by the Federal EPA. Everyone should be aware that people have been sickened while working on that property, as per statements in California, Superior Court Documents. This is recent information and has nothing to do with NASA contracts but has everything to do with public exposure to toxic chemicals.
If you have trouble reading the following image, right click with your mouse and open it in a new tab, or download it to view full size. This document which is part of the Land Transfer Document on file with the Los Angeles County Recorders Office explains who owns what and what it is that they actually own. None of these listed corporations, cities, etc., actually have clear title to the land. None of them. The City of Downey has a Quit Claim Deed from NASA. The City of Downey has sold portions of their Quit Claim in some instances, to corporations. In other instances, the City of Downey has leased their Quit Claim Interest in the Property to a corporation. The Federal Government still owns the land and the Federal Government is ultimately responsible for any environmental problems that arise that the City of Downey and those other listed corporations cannot or will not repair. The Federal Government is also ultimately responsible if the City of Downey and or any of those corporations listed below are responsible for illness that occurs on the property, caused by the property and if the City of Downey and those corporations refuse to assist the injured parties.
We hope that this clears up a ten year long period of misreporting to the public about who owns the property and who is responsible for it. On the chart above, the Fee simple deeds are for roads. So they created parcels and put roads on them. So this means that Parcel F listed above is a road that Kaiser pays to have maintained. All this is actually explained in the EIR at the City of Downey website but there is so much material, I doubt that too many people will take the time to review everything. I am surprised that local media did not. Also, Governor Gray Davis did not approve any residential building to take place on that property, and he did acknowledge that the property is contaminated with toxins. This means that all reports that he waived the land restrictions pertaining to residential are not true. It also is not true that the State of California said that the land was environmentally safe. California did say that if the City of Downey wanted to clean it up it was fine with them. The actual document Gray Davis signed and the accompanying CC&R's may be viewed at:
http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/davis/Exh G - Covenant Deferral Request (CDR).pdf
http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/davis/Downey NASA site CC_and_Rs.pdf
See: http://cfpub2.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/calinfo.cfm?id=0905602
See: Jan. 25, 2010 CDC/NIOSH Report suddenly removed from CDC site: http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/niosh-jan-10-2010.pdf
See: Employees being biomonitored at Downey Kaiser - http://tinyurl.com/25qeo4t
What is a Hazardous Waste? http://www.fixr.com/info/hazardous-waste.html
Prior to 2006, EPA had available for the public viewing, environmental documents showing what and where on the property toxic to human contamination was located. A lawsuit was filed because a number of employees, on the northern portion of the property became ill. The union representing the employees hired an attorney to help these people. Some secret dealing went on and suddenly the injured parties were abandoned by their attorneys. At that time the EPA documents also disappeared.
In 2007, Kaiser Permanente employees began having health issues while working on the property. In 2008, we at the Kaiser Papers became involved and asked the EPA nicely at both Federal and State levels to please provide the information so that those that are ill could show the materials to their physicians. We were all told that no records were available and that only NASA could provide them. NASA wouldn't talk to anyone, answer an e-mail, acknowledge a written letter and certainly could not be bothered with the phone. NASA's response was flatly, no response at all.
Mr. Ralph Nader became involved. Then a new EPA director overseeing the property came on the scene and suddenly the documents started appearing and were provided to the public. The official EPA press release states that one day the old EPA director just suddenly quit, joined the Peace Corps and was now in the jungle in Africa, unreachable. In his desk they found the documents that had disappeared.
Near the end of that year, after Mr. Ralph Nader started making inquiries. The union head involved in that lawsuit suddenly resigned. Around the same time, the new EPA Director was promoted and no longer could oversee the property that had never been evaluated. The new EPA Director overseeing the property has never been reached by anyone that we know of. So something is not right here. It doesn't matter if this is being swept under the rug, and the public ignored for political purposes, for legal purposes to avoid being sued, or even to hide the top secret military contracts/experiments that went on at that location. It doesn't matter. What matters is that people are sick and no one is being held accountable. What matters is that the sick people probably are not going to ever get well. What matters is the future of the people that live in the area, work on the property, and the hospital patients.
Before we began looking into this property, the official statements were that it was only a paper generating, report making location. Nothing could be further from the truth. Beginning in 1946 forward it was a site for nuclear experimentation. It also was a location for the creation of the Space Shuttle, and numerous military projects involving warheads. It was an airport first. It was an airplane manufacturing site second. It was an army base third. It was a NASA site. Of course there are materials on the property that will make anyone sick. Would you build on a gas station or over an airport? Probably not. But Kaiser Permanente did.
The two maps displayed immediately below this writing show the property and where some not very nice chemicals were stored. The second map displays an aerial shot of the property. The point of putting this material together is not to disgrace NASA nor the military or any aerospace corporation. The point is to allow the public the option of becoming aware because certainly no one else is going to tell them about it.
The following song was written specifically for the victims of the Downey Property. While no one has yet been able to help them, this honor has at least been given to them.The lyrics to this song "Ill Gotten Gain" may be read HERE
The following photograph - left to right: Gail Shephard - Kaiser Senior Ortho Tech, Steve Basilie - Studio Worker, Leonard Martin - former Studio Worker and Steve Zeltzer, chair of California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day CCWMD - at a press conference, August 12, 2009 at the L.A. Press Club. To see how Gail looked prior to working at Downey please view at: http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/images/Gail.jpg
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Attn: Government Agencies, Please contact one of the following persons for further details and /or documents for further information. Gail Shephard (562) 863-3097,Leonard Martin (661) 400-0059 or Vickie Travis - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Sodium reactors fell out of favor due to the fact that liquid sodium catches fire when exposed to air and explodes when it mixes with water. These things are reported to have taken place at the Downey Facility.
NASA told our Congress one story about the property and then signed a document telling a very different story. People that get sick on the Downey Property - NASA claims that they have no knowledge of anything and if anything happens it isn't their fault. That is a little different than what they told Congress. Right Click on the small document below and select View Image to read it.
People that may come into contact with more pollutants than the general population - Specifically Named Occupations/Employers -
Kaiser Downey hospital employees - Specifically Named Communities - Downey -
Government document from California Division of Biomonitoring - OEHHA -
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - Appendix 7 Populations Identified by Survey Respondents -
Please view government pdf download file: http://kaiserdowney.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/Appendix7_021909.pdf
