[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, VOCs, REUSE: Alameda Point (CA) contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Clean Up Raises Doubts

Dennis Evanosky
Alameda Sun (CA)
March 26, 2009


Recent discoveries near the Seaplane Lagoon have cast suspicions on 
whether the federal government will leave the final cleanup of Alameda 
Point in the laps of Island City taxpayers. The Navy, which plans to 
finish its cleanup of the Point this year, recently took samples from 
the edge of the rocks — called riprap — along the northwest edge of the 
Seaplane Lagoon. The Navy identified chalk-like materials with elevated 
radiological readings and later confirmed the material to be Radium 226. 
The area of elevated radiological readings covers a 50-square-foot area 
along the lagoon.

Alameda's Restoration Advisory Board members learned of this find 
earlier this month. They cannot take this discovery lightly. Radium 226 
was once used in self-luminous paints for watch and instrument dials and 
aircraft switches.

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In 2008 the Navy verified that the conditions just southeast of Building 
20 posed a potential health risk to anyone inhaling vapors that come 
from "volatile organic chemicals," called "VOCs" in the groundwater. The 
Navy has now told the Restoration Advisory Board that it did not achieve 
its remediation goals at the site.


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For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4923&Itemid=10

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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