[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Treasure Island residents face health concerns from toxic dust"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is it safe? Treasure Island residents face health concerns from toxic dust
The dirt on the island was contaminated. Now it's flying around in the air.
By GARRETT LEAHY
48 Hills (San Francisco, CA)
NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As a child in the late 1970s, Alexandria Rockett liked to visit Naval Station Treasure Island to help her father and uncle who worked at the local boiler plant that provided hot water to a laundry and dry cleaner.

At the time, the island served as a Naval academy, training service people in detecting radiation, repairing detection equipment, and decontaminating irradiated ships.

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Treasure Island, unlike other Naval facilities such as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, was never designated by the federal government as a Superfund site, a program that funds the clean-up of toxic sites. 

However, Navy surveys found chemical and radiological toxics left in the soil after civilians had moved into former Naval housing. The Navy began cleaning leftover chemical and radiological waste, a process called “remediation,” in 1999 and continues to this day.

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For the entire article, see
https://48hills.org/2022/11/is-it-safe-treasure-island-residents-face-health-concerns-from-toxic-dust/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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