At height of Fukushima emergency, the very spot in California where plume was to make landfall had NO radiation monitors — FOIA email shows officials ‘decided’ not to deploy RADNET to area — Only working monitor broke as radioactivity was spiking (MAP) Follow-up to: Obama pick to lead EPA is from Office of Air and Radiation -- In charge of troubled RadNet during Fukushima peak Left: Washington Post map of suspected path of Fukushima plume that hit California’s Central Coast; Right: Light blue dots are RADnet monitors that were not functioning KION, Jan. 9, 2014:[...] Right when the plume was supposed to hit, there were no functioning RADnet monitors on the Central Coast. Hirsch said the EPA was going to deploy portable monitors. But look at the posted email from the EPA to air quality districts that were to monitor the portables. This was obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request by [University of California Santa Cruz lecturer Dan Hirsch]. [...] “EPA HQ has decided at this time to not deploy the deployable RADNET monitors to CA, OR and WA.” So at the height of the emergency the central coast, the very spot where the radioactive plume was supposed to hit the EPA had no working monitors for the air quality in Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara counties. Why? Hirsch says Freedom of Information requests have gone unanswered. So we really have no clue how much radiation was in the air on the central coast in the days and weeks after the Fukashima [sic] accident. Hirsch said we do know from a monitor in Bakersfield, before it broke in mid-march, that radioactive air quality was spiking. [...] I’ve made a call to the EPA for comment on this they’ve yet to respond. Hirsch can only speculate that the EPA was worried about public hysteria over this and chose to now [not?] deploy the monitors. Results from a sample of ocean water collected near the coast of Santa Barbara County on on March 22. 2011 is now available on the newly published map at ourradioactiveocean.org. Test results found 14.7 Bq/m³ of cesium-134 and -137. Other samples further off-shore in the weeks after also found cesium-134, a ‘fingerprint’ for Fukushima contamination. enenews/tv-at-height-of-fukushima-emergency-in-the-very-spot-in-california-where-the-radioactive-plume-was-forecast-to-hit-had-no-working-monitors-foia-email-shows-epa-decided-not-to-deploy-radnet-to
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