Alameda Sun: Navy to Create New Wetlands at Point, January 3, 2019
Submitted by west on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 23:09
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he Navy is nearing completion of plans for a cleanup area called Site 32, 60 acres that lie on the old airfield west of the Alameda Point Antiques Faire. The site requires remediation because investigators uncovered radium-226 there. The Navy mixed radium-226, a naturally occurring mineral, with paint to allow dials and markers to glow in the dark. Repeated exposure to high levels of radium can cause cancer.
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