If you missed it, I recommend Brian Joseph’s investigative piece on the water storage facility — Hayfield, in the desert in Riverside County — with unusually high conentrations of uranium. From the way I read it, it’s a little unclear whether this is really dangerous to humans, and they’re talking about diluting with Colorado River water. But the troubling thing is that the Metroplitan Water District, that great bureaucratic behemoth, seems to have concealed the fact about the uranium, perhaps even from some board members.

Posted in: California • Environment • Health and Wellness |

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.