[CPEO-MEF] Brentwood (CA) nuclear and chemical dump

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Nuke 'Em High
Unearthing the VA dump's dirty secrets raises more questions than answers

By MICHAEL COLLINS
Los Angeles City Beat
August 16, 2007

In August 8, after months of wrangling, Congressman Henry Waxman finally 
released nearly 6,000 pages of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
documents related to the Brentwood nuclear and chemical dump. The L.A. 
Democrat has had the documents since mid-December, having obtained them 
after sending a letter to now-outgoing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson on 
March 27, 2006, demanding information, in part, about the dump. "Has the 
public been informed that contaminates are buried under or near the 
location of the Brentwood School athletic facility?" wrote Waxman. 
"Whose decision was it to leave the non-excavated radioactive medical 
waste in place?"

The waste disposal site was used during the Cold War to bury radioactive 
animal carcasses and biomedical research trash contaminated with 
radioisotopes, including tritium and carbon-14, in unlined trenches and 
barrels. These materials are under what is now the Barrington dog park, 
an adjacent asbestos-contaminated junk-strewn arroyo, and the athletic 
fields of private Brentwood School, which leases 20 acres from the VA 
for its $2.5 million sports complex.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=6010&IssueNum=219

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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
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