Base radiation level debated - No contamination revealed

[Dreyer GS13 Kelly A <DreyerKA@hqmc.usmc.mil>]

I read the previous article you posted from the Orange County Register,
"Ominious Evidence" and thought you may want to also post this follow-on
article regarding the same topic.

Thanks,
Kelly Dreyer
Environmental Restoration Program Manager
HQ Marine Corps
DSN 225-8302, ext 3329
COM (703) 695-8302, ext 3329
dreyerka@hqmc.usmc.mil

For the complete article go to:
http://www.ocregister.com/science/nuke2x06w.shtml

Base radiation level debated 
ENVIRONMENT: A key drainpipe measurement reveals no contamination. 
October 5, 1999 
By PAT BRENNAN
The Orange County Register 

	Worried members of a government-mandated watchdog group have stepped
up their investigation of possible radioactive contamination on the former
El Toro Marine base, increasing their demands for details of just what was
dumped, and where. 
	And Navy officials involved in the base cleanup have quietly begun
to fight back - making public presentations and offering detailed memos that
suggest that contamination levels may be much lower than their critics fear.

	The two sides exchanged good-natured volleys at a public meeting
last week of the El Toro Restoration Advisory Board - the first since one of
the board members, chemist Chuck Bennett, revealed that he had found a rusty
and strongly radioactive instrument gauge in one of the landfills on the
base. 

continued....

http://www.ocregister.com/science/nuke2x06w.shtml