Treasure Island radiation discovery casts shadow over expansion plans

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Treasure Island radiation discovery casts shadow over expansion plans

Rory Carroll in Los Angeles
guardian.co.uk, Friday 17 August 2012 19.41 BST

It was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco bay has nothing but trouble buried in its soil: radioactive contamination left by the US navy.

Internal documents and emails from the navy and public health officials reveal that the contamination, a legacy of ships exposed to atomic blasts and radiation training during the cold war, is more widespread than previously thought.

The navy reportedly bungled a clean-up, leaving topsoil with 400 times the Environmental Protection Agency's human exposure limits.

The revelations have alarmed some of the island's 2,800 residents and cast a shadow over plans to start building high-rise apartments for 20,000 more people next year.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/17/treasure-island-radiation-us-navy

[Politicalboi]

1. Rmoney wants to expand his Ca house

I say give him the dirt, he needs it.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Well, there are some advantages to having him glow in the dark.

He'd be a lot easier to keep track of that way.

If (FSM Forbid!) he were elected, his aides would always be able to track him down with a geiger counter.

[proud patriot]

2. as a kid I went to the comissary there every weekend

Now with the Navy gone , they have opened it up for residential occupation.... jeesh this is awful

We have to drive right through it on the bay bridge.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Hmmm..been on the Island several times.

wonder what kinds of radiation, and how far it spreads.
And did the poor SOBs that worked there have any clue?
I know there have been lots of stories of how contaminated military bases are/were, across the globe.

[proud patriot]

5. It's a good question

it'll be interesting to see if they follow some of those workers .

[pscot]

6. They don't want to know