[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Navy Finds Radiation in Treasure Island Home"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Finds Radiation in Treasure Island Home

By Vicky Nguyen, Liz Wagner and Felipe Escamilla
NBC Bay Area I-Team
July 29, 2014 

The Navy has confirmed to NBC Bay Area that it has found elevated levels of radiation at a residential site on Treasure Island.

As the Investigative Unit reported in April, the Navy said it would begin testing more than 600 homes for radiological contamination.

Now, surveyors have found elevated levels of radiation in Unit F of building 1303 on Gateview Avenue. The unit is currently unoccupied, and the Navy says that while the radiation levels are above normal, they’re about half of the maximum considered a health concern by federal and state standards.

Still, the findings are troubling for some of the roughly 3,000 people who live and work on the island. The Navy did not originally plan to test the homes for radiation. That decision came after the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit uncovered a report showing that a different building at 1101 Bigelow Court also registered elevated radiation readings.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Navy-Finds-Radiation-in-Treasure-Island-Home-269138341.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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