Re: Environmental Sampling:

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

If the cleanup to which you refer is at the Stepan Chemical Plant, and
vicinity properties, it's Th, not Ra (gas lantern mantles, etc.). Lodi, I
believe, is Ra, I don't recall the source. Could it have gone all the way
back to dial-painting?

chris alston
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu
My employer disavows responsibility . . .

At 04:06  02/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>At 02:59 PM 2/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>Besides the orange outfits are an insult to the environment. I suggest
>>pastels or earth tones depending on the type of sample being collected.
>>warren_church@uml.edu
>>
>Having grown up real close to the "Hacky", the orange may not be such an
>insult to the environment.  I remember the shoreline sediments being of
>many colors and the water having a rainbow kind of effect, depending on the
>factory or dump you were near to (this was 25 years ago)!  With all due
>respect, it is my understanding that NJ has done a great job in saving the
>Hackensack and Passaic Rivers.  Perhaps they could take some rad samples to
>make sure there is no impact from the Maywood radium and Lodi Thorium
>cleanups (had to get a rad component into the message!).