Environmental testing at the Albany Bulb, a popular hiking and art destination in the Bay Area, has revealed elevated levels of a type of radiation that can cause cancer.
The city of Albany hired hazardous waste specialists to investigate radioactive contamination at the Bulb, a former municipal landfill that once accepted construction debris. State regulators ordered the investigation after a 1980 document suggested that the nearby Richmond chemical plant had dumped 11,000 tons of waste, possibly including alum mud, a radioactive byproduct of aluminum processing.
