but that s maybe the nature of the beast there, unfortunately. last year i didn t have enough energy for it, i think. i don t know if daddy will want me to do it this year. yeah. it is his car now. maybe put up posters instead. you need to push down your cuticle. but i ll come back to that one. thanks. it s pretty. it is pretty. i like how glittery it is. i feel more hopeful even though right now things are looking pretty glum again for the cleanup right now. i am more at peace with the thought that this could be the rest of my life.
a former environmental aide of the state epa. and the former chief lawyer of the dtsc have all switched sides and worked on behalf of boeing to kill a full cleanup of santa susana. the santa susana laboratory is a complex cleanup. it costs a lot of money. and anytime it costs a lot of money, there s going to be politics at play. that leads to delay. in 2007, there was a consent order signed between the dtsc and the responsible parties that did not establish much of a cleanup standard. it was very weak and it was exactly what boeing wanted. it is based off of people being on the site very infrequently. that would result in 98% of the contamination not being cleaned up. people who live near santa susana do not live in recreational areas. they live in residential areas. all through the 2000s there
finally get the cleanup because sometimes i can t sleep at night, worrying that my children are in danger. and i know i m not the only one. but what people maybe don t remember is that we re fitting a lifetime into a year or two or three or five yes. and that s so powerful. portfolio, the future, and that s true. it s true for all of us. one of the things i wish we could have done, because she was in the process of getting a second wish granted. yeah. and her wish was to go to kleinfeld s in new york and try on wedding dresses because her favorite show was say yes to the dress. right. we would watch it in the hospital all the time. and we got approved, and we were planning it in january of last year. right. and we were going to try to go in april. yeah. but but she didn t get to.
i ve worked in nuclear radiation, radiological cleanup. those sites have multiple fire crews, multiple approximately trucks, tons of equipment because it s a legitimate concern. there is no secret surrounding the state of california and fires that happen here. after the fire, dtsc released an interim report. for them to release a report that shows them doing air monitoring after the fire is silly. the greatest risk was during the fire. they have now admitted that the burned vegetation made the contaminants in the soil more mobile. and that s part of the reason why we have these 57 exceedences in storm water runoff after the fire. but the bottom line is if it had been cleaned up as it should have been by 2017, we wouldn t be having this conversation. the vegetation on-site is contaminated. and as the vegetation burned, it then aerosolized high up into the atmosphere and was able to spread across the basin.
was an effort to require a full cleanup. then state senator sheila kuehl who represented the area introduced bill after bill. workers and neighbors have become sick and too many have died. it s time to require full and complete cleanup. i ask for your aye vote. in 2007, she finally got her legislation through. believe it or not, under schwarzenegger there was an actual serious effort to clean up that site. but after governor brown came to office, things shifted very dramatically. boeing, however, went to court to overturn the law and through some exceedingly troubling action by the brown administration, that lawsuit was lost. within five weeks of jerry brown being sworn in in 2011, a secret stipulation was entered into between the state and boeing in that lawsuit. the state of california actually stipulated that they would not contest any material