[CPEO-MEF] Brentwood School (CA) and VA radiation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Brentwood School study finds no radiation oncampus land leased fromthe 
VA, but bigger questions remain unanswered

By MICHAEL COLLINS
LA City Beat
February 22, 2007

In a January 30 letter to the parents of students at Brentwood School, 
headmaster Dr. Michael D. Pratt revealed that the exclusive private 
establishment had hired two firms in December to evaluate its school 
soil. �I am delighted to report that our additional environmental 
testing has confirmed that there is no radiation on our school grounds 
above normal background levels,� Pratt wrote of the $150,000 report.

That property, as first reported last May, has radioactive biomedical 
waste buried under it according to an August 2005 report prepared for 
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs by contractor 
PricewaterhouseCoopers. A CityBeat expos� revealed that from 1952 to 
1968, the VA and UCLA dumped medium- and long-lived radioactive and 
toxic chemical waste under property that is also now part of the 
Barrington Recreation Center, a dog park, and an adjacent arroyo. The 
detritus included irradiated lab animal carcasses and ash, as well as 
radioactive tritium and carbon-14, from years of animal and human 
radiation experiments during the height of the Cold War.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5075&IssueNum=194

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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