[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Treasure Island [CA] sites called safe from radiation"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Treasure Island sites called safe from radiation
Health officials find no health risks at 24 areas after contamination  
fears raised


By Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
Bay Citizen (CA)
October 25, 2012

State health officials have declared day care and youth centers,  
ballfields, some residential backyards and other sites on Treasure  
Island safe from radiation in response to fears about the area's  
nuclear past.

The surveys taken from 24 publically accessible locations were not  
part of the Navy's scheduled cleanup program, but were prompted by  
public concern about exposure to radioactivity on the former Treasure  
Island Naval Station.

Health department technicians found negligible levels of radiation  
posing no health threat at those locations, according to California  
Department of Public Health reports produced in response to a Bay  
Citizen public records request. But that doesn't mean the former base  
is ready for a proposed 20,000-resident community approved this year  
by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At cordoned off areas  
around the island, the cleanup of contamination continues in and  
around areas slated for future construction.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.baycitizen.org/health/story/treasure-island-areas-declared- 
safe/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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