[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, DISPOSAL: Brentwood, CA VA Dump

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brentwood's Toxic Grave
Historic dumping grounds beneath the spectacular VA land finally get tested.

By Michael Collins
LA Weekly (CA)
December 9, 2009


Several days ago, men wearing radiation dosimeters stood on the Veteran 
Administration's West Los Angeles property, atop an old toxic dump that 
partially underlies Barrington Recreation Center's baseball fields and a 
city dog park, and began the federal government's long-delayed $1 
million test of the soils.

The men would not identify themselves but one volunteered that they 
planned to "core" tubes of dirt to test for contamination along the 
length of a fenced-off drainage system east of the park.

Yet they were drilling in an area covered with 5,000 truckloads of inert 
fill dirt, according to a VA report. And they were coring far from key 
areas that the VA's own maps show overlay the disused VA and UCLA 
medical and chemical dumps, long hidden beneath the VA's chunk of 
valuable Westside real estate.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-10/news/brentwood-39-s-toxic-grave/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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