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Coca Area, located in Area II at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, began operating in the early 1950s. Coca Area originally consisted of four test stands for testing rocket engines using primarily petroleum-based fuels (kerosene) and liquid oxygen (LOX). Test Stands 3 and 4 were built in 1964 and both stands currently remain. From 1970 to 1973, Coca was used for non-engine testing. Then from 1973 to 1988, Coca was used to test the Space Shuttle Main Engines using LOX and liquid hydrogen (LH2). The Coca Area has been inactive since 1988. Cooling water as well as fuel oil and TCE from testing operations drained down a concrete spillway through an unlined ditch into the unlined Coca Skim Pond, then eventually to the R-2A Pond.

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