After revelations that radioactive waste may be buried under two Bay Area parks, the cities of Albany and Berkeley submitted testing plans. Albany's was approved; Berkeley's was deemed insufficient.
Months after discovering that radioactive waste and toxic pesticides may be buried under two popular Bay Area parks, state regulators have rejected Berkeley's plan to test for contaminants as insufficient. In January, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board informed the cities of Albany and Berkeley that a former chemical plant had disposed of 11,100 tons of industrial waste at their municipal landfills decades ago.
But the plan allowed for spacing up to 100 feet between each walked path, meaning 'it would result in a significant portion of the site not being surveyed,' according to a May 16 letter from Eileen White, the executive officer of the regional water board. 'A comprehensive surface scan should cover 100 percent of the landfill surface, or as close to that as possible,' White said in the letter to SCS Engineers.
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