Chumash Want to Buy Sacred Cave on Toxic Santa Susana Field Lab Land

The Chumash tribe wants to buy a 450-acre piece of a contaminated nuclear research land at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the hills west of Chatsworth, hoping to preserve a cave that its members consider sacred, reports Steve Chawkins in the Los Angeles Times. But some locals are concerned the purchase might be a back door to building a casino.

Read the report here.

Additional reading:

• The Toxic Saga Behind Santa Susana Field Laboratory
• 'Nuclear Cowboys' Ran the Field Lab in the 1950s
• Is It Only a Matter of Time? 'I'm a Ticking Time Bomb'
• Chumash looking to acquire portion of Santa Susana Field Lab
• Tribe wants part of contaminated lab

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