[CPEO-MEF] Pollution & Cleanup at Livermore Lab-invitation

[marylia@earthlink.net]

Greetings:
Here is information about an upcoming public meeting on cleanup of toxic
and radioactive pollution at Livermore Lab's site 300 high explosives
testing range. The meeting is sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and TRAQ. If
you are in Northern California -- you are cordially invited to attend. All
others on my email lists -- this is FYI. Read on...

for further information, contact
Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
Inga Olson, Program Associate, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
Peter Strauss, Environmental Scientist, (415) 647-4404

                                * Media Advisory *

COMMUNITY MEETING TO ADDRESS PROPOSED FUNDING CUTS, OTHER THREATS TO
CLEANUP OF RADIOACTIVE AND TOXIC POLLUTION AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB'S SITE
300 HIGH EXPLOSIVES TESTING RANGE

WHAT:   Public Meeting, "Site 300 - Pollution, Cleanup and the Role of the
Community," jointly sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and Tracy Regional
Alliance for a Quality Environment (TRAQ)

WHEN:   Thursday, May 31, 2001 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

WHERE:  Tracy Community Center, 300 East 10th Street, Tracy

WHO:    * Peter Strauss of PM Strauss and Associates, technical advisor to
Tri-Valley CAREs for over a decade and author of the "Community Guide to
the Site 300 Cleanup," will discuss the on-site and off-site contaminated
groundwater plumes and their potential impact on human health and the
environment.

                * Marylia Kelley, the Executive Director of Tri-Valley
CAREs, will outline solutions, including various types of soil and
groundwater treatment technologies, and will discuss the need for
long-term, stable funding for the Superfund cleanup effort at site 300.

                * Inga Olson, Tri-Valley CAREs' Program Associate will be
joined by Tracy community members to initiate a call to action, and will
outline several effective measures that citizens can employ to help assure
the cleanup of radioactive and toxic pollutants at site 300.

WHY:            Contaminants in soil and groundwater near Tracy could be
left in place and allowed to migrate unchecked because of reductions in the
Department of Energy's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Request for cleanup at the
site. Livermore Lab's environmental restoration budget is slated to be cut
from its current $21.7 million to $11.3 million, a 48% decrease.

Site 300 was designated as a Superfund site, requiring priority cleanup, by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1990. Since 1955, site 300 has
been used by Livermore Lab to test high explosives and components of
nuclear weapons.  Underground plumes of water contain high concentrations
of uranium, tritium (radioactive hydrogen), volatile organic compounds
(including TCE), high explosives and other toxic chemicals.

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Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

(925) 443-7148 - is our phone
(925) 443-0177 - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.


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