[CPEO-BIF] Map shows where Stauffer Chemical Co. may have dumped radioactive waste in Bay Area parks

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Map shows where radioactive waste may have been dumped in Bay Area parks

By Tara Duggan
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
May 14, 2024

Decades ago, Stauffer Chemical Co. dumped hazardous waste into several East Bay locations, including two places known to have radioactive material. But the extent of the disposal sites, and the fact that they also occurred at what are now public parks, only became widely known last year, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Last year, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control shared a letter dated March 28, 1980, with several other state and federal agencies that showed the chemical company had dumped a total of over 50,000 tons of industrial waste in previous decades at two Richmond sites as well as in landfills in Benicia, Albany and Berkeley, the latter two at locations that are now covered by parks, according to the report.

It was already known that Stauffer had dumped hazardous waste, including radioactive material, at the site of its Richmond plant, now known as the Zeneca site for the company that took over after it closed, and the nearby Blair landfill. But it was not previously disclosed that Stauffer had dumped 11,100 tons of waste in each of two landfills that are now covered by César Chávez Park in Berkeley and Albany Bulb, a park and public art space, and 3,700 tons in Benicia, according to the Department of Toxic Substances Control.  

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/toxic-radioactive-waste-parks-19457479.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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