Nearly a year after the nearby refinery showered the city of Martinez with 20 tons of metal-contaminated dust, residents are still asking what went wrong, and how so many failures could occur in su…
On Monday, county health staff and a group called TRC, which put together the toxicology report, presented a series of findings that showed, from their sampling, that there were not “elevated levels of harmful metals…that could be attributed to the release.”
Residents also repeatedly raised concerns that the entire study was flawed, in large part because it was conducted months after the spent catalyst release occurred, and following multiple atmospheric rivers last winter. Maureen Brennan, who identified herself as a biochemist by trade, said she was concerned the county health department was underplaying the dangers of the heavy metals present in the spent catalyst release.
County health officials responded to some, but not all of the resident’s concerns, and said that rain would not have affected the soil readings they collected.
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