Radium Scanning Process at Seaplane Lagoon

Every scoop of dirt that was dredged from the Seaplane Lagoon earlier this year is first sorted into premeasured compartments.  The piles are then tested for heavy metals, PCBs, and pesticides.  But the piles cannot be tested for radium 226. In order to test for radium, every pile has to be scooped back into a [...]