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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

 Nuclear Reactions
VA begins testing for radioactive waste beneath a popular West L.A. dog 
park and surrounding areas


By MICHAEL COLLINS
LA City Beat (CA)
December 7, 2006

In direct response to a five-year CityBeat and EnviroReporter.com 
investigation into a biomedical nuclear waste dump in Brentwood, the 
Veterans Administration has begun testing soil and groundwater on its 
West Los Angeles property. The surprise decision was announced last 
week. The first phase of testing began November 30 at the Barrington 
Recreation Center with surface soil inspection, and adjacent arroyos 
were also included, covering 27 acres of the VA site. The second testing 
phase will take place this spring and will involve borings as deep as 80 
feet into the earth to sample for radiation and chemical contamination.

The results of the phase-one "walkover survey" will be revealed in late 
January by Millennium Consulting Associates, the company hired to do the 
testing. The Los Angeles Times reported that it would cost the VA 
$78,500 to complete phase one and credited the move to recent stories 
about the park. "The dumping was largely forgotten until earlier this 
year when reporter Michael Collins, writing for the alternative weekly 
Los Angeles CityBeat and EnviroReporter.com, raised new concerns about 
the dump area," the Times wrote November 30. A nuclear watchdog group, 
Committee to Bridge the Gap, warned of the dump's dangers in the early 
1980s but failed to elicit subsequent action.

For the entire article, see
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4705&IssueNum=183

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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