[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, RADIATION: Treasure Island (CA) residents worry about Navy contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is Treasure Island toxic? Residents' worries grow
Contamination left by Navy touches off growing worries

by Marisa Lagos
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
February 15, 2014

Treasure Island resident Kathryn Lundgren has been concerned for  
several years about the effects of contamination at the former Navy  
base on her family's health.

But when a group of Navy contractors dug a small radioactive fragment  
out of her front yard last month, Lundgren became angry and scared.  
The fragment, a metal disc the size of a dime, was detected during  
radiation scans conducted in November but wasn't dug up until the end  
of January. The Navy didn't give a reason for the delay.

During that time, Lundgren attended two meetings where city, state  
and federal officials repeatedly assured residents that the island is  
safe and that the scans were merely precautionary measures. It wasn't  
the first time radioactive fragments have been found near her home -  
another two were dug up last spring.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-S-F-move-people-to-Treasure- 
Island-too-5238789.php

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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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