Excerpt from the EnviroReporter.com exposé Brandeis-Bardin’s Toxic Denial:
Gurgling goo was still flowing unimpeded in the exact same Meier Canyon location in 2014 when Simi Valley resident Brandon Manwell contacted EnviroReporter.com. Manwell had found the place hiking with friends. He videotaped and photographed it in April 2014 and the result is a YouTube video entitled Sludge from Rocketdyne. The skateboarder first thought he was in the upper reaches of Runkle Canyon, one mountain ridge away to the west, where KB Home’s controversial development called Arroyo Vista at the Woodlands in Runkle Canyon is being built.
“Me and my friend found a few places just like this back in that canyon,” Manwell wrote in an April 19, 2014 email to EnviroReporter.com. “We wouldn’t have thought too much of it except for the fact that the water running out of this old pipe was iridescent, kind of like when water has oil in it, but it had a weird consistency when we touched it with a stick in the video. We weren’t sure what to make of it to be honest, we thought we should go back and get samples.”
Brandon Manwell's photograph of a hole oozing liquid. This may be the pipe hole attached to the long-since-missing iron cap shot full of holes last photographed in 2007.
Brandeis-Bardin goo in 2014.
Manwell's video of this gurgling pipe covered in slime suggests that it has been flowing at least since 2004 when it was first photographed.
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