Corporate Pointe West Hills Gallery

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Corporate Pointe sits on 51 acres of an 81-acre former aerospace and nuclear-research facility once occupied by Hughes Missile Group, Rocketdyne, Atomics International and Raytheon Missile Systems. The expanse of land was riddled with heavy metal, chemical and radiological contamination.

TRW in 1959

Hughes-Rocketdyne in 1960

Atomics International in 1962

Hughes Aircraft & Missile

Atomics International workers at 'hot lab' in undated photo. Mechanical arms assist worker at left in manipulating radioactive substances inside shielded area while man at right watches with binoculars.

Thompson Ramo Woodridge -1962

Boeing's entrance at the West Hills property

Boeing's garden at Corporate Pointe West Hills

Ponce Avenue in 1962 in then-Canoga Park now named West Hills. Bonnie Klea, who has lived on this street for 37 years, says cancers in the area are high. State studies show that high bladder cancers are in three census tracts in the area, including this one.

Farmlab salon about LA River pollution." > Bonnie Klea, with Bill Bowling in background, at January 9, 2009 Farmlab salon about LA River pollution.

Bonnie Klea's case for contamination is extensive.

West Hills resident Bonnie Klea, left, first uncovered problems with the Raytheon property in 1995. Bill Bowling, right, and Klea are in the Aerospace Cancer Museum of Education - Los Angeles, or ACME-LA, located on the other side of now-dry Chatsworth Reservoir.

Idle groundwater remediating system

Idle groundwater remediating system. Above is the northwest edge of property with reservoir embankment in background.

Groundwater remediating system at Corporate Pointe West Hills.

This photo shows the roof of a new Corporate Pointe parking structure that, according to Klea, was built over an "area of concern" (AOC) without proper government oversight. AOCs are areas with contamination, in this case with vaporizing freon and radioactivity in the groundwater.