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

[Peter <petestrauss1@comcast.net>]

As a resident of Berkeley and a user of the Albany bulb, I was very surprised to learn about this only this week. No signs were posted at the bulb - a space used by a lot of dog walkers. I’m really surprised that dtsc which regulates rad waste has not really come forward at least in public. This entire incident points out the need for a strong community communication by the state whenever there is a possibility of hazardous or nuclear waste disposal, no matter when it occurred.
Peter Strauss 
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> On May 16, 2024, at 3:43 PM, Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> wrote:
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> Map shows where radioactive waste may have been dumped in Bay Area parks
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> By Tara Duggan
> San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
> May 14, 2024
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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