1979-xx-xx Sabol – Radioactive Waste Investigation Southeast Disposal Area (SEDA)
The Air Force failed to disclose to the ATSDR, contractors, public, and Federal & State regulators that John R. Sabol, J.D., P.E. conducted a radiological assessment of the Southeast Disposal Area (SEDA) where he located 18 to 20 55 gallon drums of radioactive waste in 1979. [Read More…]
1988-07-xx News – Ex-officers: Air Force lied about [George AFB] range
According to three retired Air Force officers, the Air Force intentionally misled the 1988 Defense Secretary’s Commission on Base Realignment and Closure hearings that led to a recommendation to close George Air Force Base in California. [Read More…]
1990-10-21 – George Air Force Base Federal Facility Agreement
The DOD/Air Force inserted a provision in the Federal Facility Agreement that allows for the withholding of information and records about radioactive contamination that is the result of the nuclear weapons program. [Read More…]
1990-91 – OSI Investigation of CBRN Contamination at George AFB
The Air Force refused to release the 1990–91 Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AF OSI) investigation of the environmental contamination at George AFB. The Air Force responded to a FOIA stating that were no responsive records despite being given a statement of facts from the investigating OSI Special Agent. [Read More…]
1990-xx-xx – Congressman George Edward Brown Jr. Investigation
The Air Force lied to Congressman George E. Brown about the presence radioactive waste at George AFB. The VA Hospital Loma Linda was refusing to release my medical records to my Veterans Service Office (VSO) or me. [Read More…]
1991-xx-xx – George AFB’s Missing Completed Exposure Pathways Assessment
The Air Force refused to release the pre-1991 epidemiological, environmental, and health investigations conducted at George AFB that were requested under FOIA. These studies may be the result of Congressman Brown’s 1990 request to Major General Burton R. Moore to investigate the radioactive contamination at George AFB. [Read More…]
1992-04-09 – Radiological contamination in the United States
The Air Force failed to disclose to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs that George Air Force Base, CA had several radiological decontamination centers for aircraft and personnel that were involved the nuclear cloud sampling program in the 1950s-60s. [Read More…]
1996-01-xx EPA – Lost Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Records
Lost AEC Records Another recent example of the failure of records to maintain knowledge of waste burial operations pertains to low level nuclear waste buried on U.S. Air Force controlled land under the authority and purview of the AEC.22 This example in no way establishes or suggests that the sites in question pose an immediate or long term risk to human health or [Read More…]
2003-05-08 AF – Buried Radioactive Weapons Maintenance Waste
Air Force acknowledged that it routinely withheld information and records about radioactive waste from Federal, State and Local regulators, contractors, and the public. [Read More…]
DoD – Report to the Congress Perchlorate in the Southwestern United States
In 2005, the DoD/Air Force deliberately misled Congress about the possibility of perchlorate from George AFB contaminating the aquifer used for drinking and irrigation water. As early as 1982, the DoD knew that there were several sources for perchlorate contamination in the Southeast Disposal Area (SDEA). The SEDA is about a ¼ mile upstream of the drinking and irrigation water supply wells for [Read More…]
George AFB’s Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing Decontamination Centers
If you worked or lived next to the west side of George AFB, worked at an engine test cell or the weapons test bunker, you were probably exposed to unsafe levels of fission byproducts (radioactive dust) from the decontamination of aircraft and equipment used in the nuclear bomb test at Nevada Test Site (NTS). Aircraft from George AFB participated in the US Atmospheric Nuclear [Read More…]
George AFB’s Public Health Assessment (PHA)
The Air Force deliberately misled the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Congress, and the American people about the toxic substances present at George AFB, CA. They failed to disclose the Completed Exposure Pathways (CEPs) and potential health threat to base personnel and their family members, including children and pregnant women (developing fetuses); civilian employees; and the surrounding community. The ATSDR relied on the [Read More…]
George AFB’s West Winds Golf Course
If you played (as a child), lived next to, played golf, or worked at the West Winds Golf Course from 1965 to 1981, you were most likely exposed to unsafe levels of partially treated sewage and industrial waste containing known carcinogens. Before 1965, George AFB discharged its industrial waste into the Mojave River. On November 17, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive [Read More…]
Nuclear Weapons at George AFB
George AFB was one of 35 bases that had Fighter Interceptor Squadrons with low-yield nuclear weapons for stopping enemy bomber attacks. Because the early nuclear weapons (non-sealed pit) required regular onsite maintenance, a considerable amount of radioactive contamination/waste would be generated during the polonium-beryllium (Po-Be) initiators replacement operation. The Air Force has repeatedly denied that there were any nuclear weapons at George AFB. [Read More…]