From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 18 Apr 2001 17:17:50 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Fallon groundwater radiation |
(As our regular readers may recall, contamination at the Naval Air Station in Fallon has been mentioned as a possible cause of a leukemia cluster in that community. - LS) REPORT SHOWS RADIOACTIVITY IN FALLON WELLS Frank X. Mullen Jr. Reno Gazette-Journal April 18th, 2001 Ground water used for drinking in the Fallon area contains radioactive minerals that exceeded federal standards in 31 of 73 wells tested in the early 1990s, according to a federal report obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal. State and federal officials said they neglected to consider the U.S. Geological Survey report in their wide-ranging investigation of a cluster of 12 childhood leukemia cases diagnosed in Fallon since 1999. The report has surfaced only because a former USGS director thought the information would be important to the investigation and wondered why it hadn’t been considered. ... The Geological Survey report, released in 1994, showed the shallow and intermediate ground water used for drinking water in the rural areas of the Carson Desert contained high amounts of uranium and radioactivity. ... The report says the radiation is naturally occurring. The uranium in the ground water has nothing to do with an underground atomic bomb test conducted 28 miles from Fallon in 1960. Scientists from the Reno-based Desert Research Institute have said that radioactive elements left in the ground from that test don’t come anywhere near the town. ... For the entire story, see http://www.rgj.com/news2/stories/news/987655985.html -- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/968-1126 lsiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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