LA Times: Radioactive dumping at East Bay Parks?
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The Los Angeles Times published a story May 14, 2024 by staff writer Tony Briscoe about possible radioactive debris at Cesar Chavez Park (Berkeley) and the Albany Bulb.
The radiation issue came up after a list surfaced recently of five locations (four along the East Bay shoreline plus Benicia) where a former Stauffer Chemical Company manufacturing plant dumped industrial waste that contained alum mud between 1960 and 1971. Stauffer had provided the list to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control about 40 years ago but it was apparently not shared with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The five locations documented by Stauffer include Cesar Chavez Park (Berkeley’s former garbage dump) and the Albany Bulb (Albany’s former dump). Point Isabel Regional Shoreline and North Point Isabel are not on the list. The two sites closest to Point Isabel are Blai — a fenced area that is a short walk up the Bay Trail — and a location that the Stauffer list referred to as "South End of Richmond Plant."
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