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Our thoughts are with those workers involved in the incident, and we hope for their quick recovery,\" Garrett said. He added that the farm is family-owned and a long-standing member of the area's agricultural community that strives to make safety a \"number one priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driscoll's issued a similar statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our thoughts are with those farmworkers who became ill, and we hope for a quick recovery,\" the company said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do know that the incident occurred in a field near one of our independent growers. We have been in contact with the involved operations to understand the circumstances behind the incident and to provide any needed support,\" the statement reads. \"Driscoll's is committed to working with independent growers who not only adhere to all applicable local laws but also strive to make safety a number one priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldfield, the Dole spokesman, said in an email Tuesday the six workers taken to the hospital all worked for FMG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FMG workers were picking raspberries, Goldfield said, an employee from another company working on a neighboring block began to spray a pesticide mixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Watsonville incident was one of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/30/chemicals-sicken-two-dozen-central-coast-farm-workers-in-one-week/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two apparent chemical-drift cases\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties in June that sent a total of 24 agricultural employees to the hospital, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/06/advocates-concerned-about-chemical-drifts-that-sickened-central-coast-farmworkers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming labor experts and advocates\u003c/a> for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County's agricultural commissioner is investigating a release that may be responsible for sending 18 celery workers to the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System's emergency room after some of them became ill on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county identified Tanimura & Antle as the company it’s investigating in connection with that incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County agricultural commissioner Juan Hidalgo refused several times to release the names in the Watsonville case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidalgo initially said that the growers his agency would interview might not feel comfortable talking to investigators if they were publicly identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 5 Hidalgo said he would release the names after those interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope to conclude interviews late next week at which point I would be able to release the name of the operation under investigation,\" Hidalgo wrote in an email that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked to identify the growers close to two weeks later, he refused again. \"The names of the companies involved as well as conclusions reached in this case will be available once the investigation is complete,\" he wrote on July 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED reminded him of his email, suggesting he would release the names after interviews, Hildago again refused. \"I feel it is essential to maintain the integrity of the investigation,\" he wrote July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of disclosure has bothered farmworker advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that it's the public's right to know what growers are hurting our farmworkers and our communities,\" said Calderon from Safe Ag Safe Schools. \"We are really concerned that it took so much effort just to get that simple information out. 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Lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/25/brown-schwarzenegger-celebrate-extension-of-cap-and-trade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the state’s cap-and-trade program\u003c/a> -- a market-based system to limit emissions -- and state utilities are moving toward generating 60 percent renewable energy by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proterra’s New Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the electric bus companies that hopes to win future contracts with the agency just got to work in Los Angeles' City of Industry. Proterra’s $20 million West Coast facility opened there officially with a big party on July 26, which Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There's a highly charged competition going on in Los Angeles right now, and it’s between manufacturers of electric buses. Transit agencies around the country are going electric. San Francisco has been buying biodiesel hybrid buses and electric trolleys for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles wants to go electric, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A.'s transit agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/\">Metro\u003c/a>, has a goal of converting its bus fleet to 100 percent electric by 2030. The agency says it will spend around $100 million a year in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are at least 10 companies in Southern California making and selling battery electric buses. The biggest is the Chinese company \u003ca href=\"http://www.byd.com/usa/bus/\">BYD\u003c/a>, which has a factory in Lancaster employing over 500 people, and \u003ca href=\"http://ebus.com/\">Ebus\u003c/a> in Downey. The Silicon Valley startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.proterra.com/\">Proterra\u003c/a>, with a new assembly plant in City of Industry, likens itself to the Tesla of electric buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is it possible the capital of car culture is advancing the art of the humble bus, even as Metro currently grapples with a fall in bus ridership?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re basically becoming the Detroit of electric transportation,” says Jeff Joyner, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://laedc.org/our-services/initiatives/e4-mobility-alliance/\">E4 Mobility Alliance\u003c/a>, an industry council working to bring advanced transportation to the Southland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had the supply chain from the aerospace industry … so those same engineers and those same companies that were supplying motors and various capacitors and technologies related to batteries are now supplying this advanced transportation industry,” according to Joyner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Metro Prepares to Go Electric\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To get an idea of what’s at stake here, consider a contract the Metro board approved on July 27. The agency agreed to spend more than $138 million for \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-electric-buses-20170727-story.html\">95 buses\u003c/a> from the Canadian company \u003ca href=\"https://www.newflyer.com/\">New Flyer\u003c/a>, which has a service center in Ontario, California, and the Chinese-owned BYD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These buses will run on Metro’s Orange Line busway in the San Fernando Valley and in the Silver Line carpool lane along the Harbor and San Bernardino freeways. It’s the agency’s cautious first step toward its 2030 zero-emission bus goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Metro fully replaced its diesel buses with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses that are nearly as clean as their electric counterparts. It is still buying CNG buses, even as it moves toward converting its entire fleet of 2,300 buses to all-electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metro’s goal of going all-electric by 2030 fits with the state’s clean energy goals. Lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/25/brown-schwarzenegger-celebrate-extension-of-cap-and-trade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the state’s cap-and-trade program\u003c/a> -- a market-based system to limit emissions -- and state utilities are moving toward generating 60 percent renewable energy by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proterra’s New Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the electric bus companies that hopes to win future contracts with the agency just got to work in Los Angeles' City of Industry. Proterra’s $20 million West Coast facility opened there officially with a big party on July 26, which Gov. Jerry Brown attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really impressed with people who invent stuff, who make stuff, who use their hands,\" Brown said at the ceremony. \"In my business we only use our mouths -- that’s our big expertise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11604382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11604382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager at Proterra's City of Industry facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1020x820.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1180x948.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-960x772.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-520x418.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager, at Proterra's City of Industry facility. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proterra has sold about 400 buses to transit agencies all over the country, including in the Central Valley. Their buses are already on the roads in Seattle, San Antonio, Stockton and Reno. And, they make up the entire fleet for nearby Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping to get to the point where Tesla is called the Proterra of carmakers, but we’re not quite there yet,” said Proterra CEO and president Ryan Popple. He previously served as the senior director of finance for Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proterra was founded in 2004 and began assembling their electric buses in Greenville, South Carolina. Their new facility in City of Industry is meant to serve West Coast transit agencies. The company’s headquarters in Burlingame is also the location of its battery testing facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nestled in Orange County, among the Starbucks, strip malls and highways, there’s a tiny immigrant community with an enormous historical burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They come from the Marshall Islands, an archipelago in the South Pacific made up of 2,000 small tropical atolls. And they have the unfortunate distinction of having the\u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902548/A-Community-of-Contrasts-NHPI-US-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> lowest per capita income of any racial and ethnic group \u003c/a>in the entire United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the Marshallese settled in Costa Mesa. Some of the adults work as baggage handlers at nearby airports. Others work at a medical device company, sewing pig valves onto heart stents. Although poor, they are knit together by their faith and their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greta Briand is the pastor’s wife, a volunteer health educator and a respected elder among the Marshallese. The children call her “bubu\" -- Marshallese for “grandmother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/07/Marshallese.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandTalking-800x576.jpg\" Title=\"Healing America’s Forgotten Nuclear Refugees Is One Woman's Mission\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand started training as a health educator 12 years ago. She wanted to help her community deal with \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/marshall-islanders-migration-patterns-and-health-care-challenges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming rates \u003c/a>of cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Marshall Islanders have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358182/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-highest rate of diabetes\u003c/a> in the world, and they also suffer from thyroid cancer, breast cancer, and cancers of the blood, stomach and colon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These illnesses, Briand says, can be traced back 70 years, to the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the U.S. occupied the atolls of the Marshall Islands and used them as a nuclear proving ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of 12 years, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always call it nuke. They nuke us!\" she says. \"And we never had these kind of diseases before. And I do believe it was because we were exposed to radiation. It was too strong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand’s own family has suffered. Her older and younger sisters are cancer survivors, of breast and thyroid, respectively. Both these cancers are on an official list from the Nuclear Claims Tribunal of \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902551/Humanitarian-Impacts-of-Nuclear-War.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">37 cancers and diseases linked to nuclear weapons testing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-800x905.jpg\" alt=\"Greta Briand wears a traditional blossom in her hair. It’s woven together with the leaves of palm fronds.\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-160x181.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-240x272.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-375x424.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-520x588.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greta Briand wears a traditional blossom in her hair. It’s woven together with the leaves of palm fronds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melody Seanoa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Nuclear Refugees in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greta Briand, now almost 70, came to California when she was a teenager, to work and to go to college. She was among the first group who came to Costa Mesa, which became the first Marshallese community in the U.S. Over the years, thousands of Marshallese followed her to America, uprooted and displaced by the U.S. nuclear testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are more than 23,000 Marshallese living in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902543/A-Community-of-Contrasts-NHPI-CA-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and about 2,000 in California.\u003c/a> They were able to come because of an agreement made between the Marshall Islands and the U.S. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://uscompact.org/about/cofa.php\">Compact of Free Association\u003c/a>. The Compact allows Marshallese to work and live freely on U.S. soil for as long as they want, but does not convey citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand originally planned to return to the Marshall Islands after she got her degree. But one reason she stayed was the health issues in her community. She wanted to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go to everybody's home, every home has a person sick -- or two -- with diabetes, cancer, heart disease,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effects of the radiation and fallout may extend even farther. According to researchers, it’s possible that the radiation from the nuclear weapons tests \u003ca href=\"http://dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/materials-based-on-reports/reports-in-brief/beir_vii_final.pdf\">can cause genetic damage\u003c/a> that can be inherited. The possibility haunts Greta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t have it, my grandkids ...,” she breaks off tearfully. “My grandkids -- or my great-grandkids -- might have cancer. And it just breaks my heart. But that's why we got to live each day, because you know we don't know what will happen tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-800x975.jpg\" alt=\"Greta Briand attends a Marshallese funeral and scatters dirt over a grave. Her younger sister, Delta Garstang, far right, is a thyroid cancer survivor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-800x975.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-1020x1243.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-1180x1438.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-960x1170.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-240x293.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-375x457.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-520x634.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greta Briand attends a Marshallese funeral and scatters dirt over a grave. Her younger sister, Delta Garstang, far right, is a thyroid cancer survivor. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Melody Seanoa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>One Voice for Many Needs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Pang, an advocate at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.pacifichealthpartners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Pacific Islander Health Partnership\u003c/a> in Orange County, trained Briand to recognize and combat the barriers that prevent many Marshallese from getting treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't understand the medical challenges. They don't understand the symptoms,” Pang said of the Marshallese. “It’s difficult for them to understand, because they have very little education in terms of health. They personally will not know what to ask for, and that's why Greta was so valuable. She was such an excellent voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greta holds health classes in women’s homes, or at the church, to teach women how to do breast self-exams. She also encourages them to go to the doctor regularly, because of the health risks posed by the nuclear tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was thinking about what happened to us, and I know if I don't say anything, nobody will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand is the only Marshallese resident in Costa Mesa who is trying to help her peers navigate the U.S. health system. She’s up against a lot. Aside from severe poverty, there’s a language barrier. One in four Marshallese households don’t speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshallese culture also stigmatizes illness. Briand says this applies to any sickness: “You don't tell anybody,” she says. “Whenever a person is sick, they always think that they did something wrong and God is punishing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-800x815.jpg\" alt=\"This is an archival photo of Castle Bravo, 3.5 seconds after detonation. at a a distance of 75 nautical miles from ground zero. This bomb was the largest and dirtiest bomb ever detonated by the U.S. It was so large you can still see the crater from space. \" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-160x163.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-240x245.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-375x382.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-520x530.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is an archival photo of Castle Bravo, 3.5 seconds after detonation. at a a distance of 75 nautical miles from ground zero. This bomb was the largest and dirtiest bomb ever detonated by the U.S. It was so large you can still see the crater from space. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Childhood Among the Bombs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand the root of the Marshallese health problems today, it’s important to go back to the late 1940s, when the Cold War began. At that time, the nuclear arms race was heating up and the U.S. needed a place, far from the populated mainland, to test bigger and more destructive nuclear weapons. Some of the 67 nuclear weapons tested in the Marshall Islands were detonated underwater, and some were dropped from airplanes. Some of the islands were completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Briand was 5, she witnessed the largest and most radioactive of these bombs from her home island of Likiep. It was called \u003ca href=\"http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb459/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Castle Bravo \u003c/a>and it had a nuclear force equivalent to 1,000 times the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"lNX7qsQ8QEPRGkn5Tily0XyQahdDkc3H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like, the sky was beautiful with orange color,\" Briand says. “And we thought it was something beautiful. We didn't know it was poison!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the detonation, dangerous clouds of radioactive, pulverized coral dust drifted across her island, coating homes and people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand isn’t alone. Castle Bravo remains the most remembered bomb test on the islands -- and everyone received documented levels of fallout from the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kon Kon Wasay, 82, was a teenager when she saw the bomb. She remembers that she was outside playing with six other girls and one boy. “All of a sudden, we hear this loud noise and it looked like something evaporating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, her friends all got sick. They have all passed away from thyroid cancers and other diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-1020x780.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-1180x902.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-960x734.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-520x398.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Navy filming Commodore Wyatt “consulting” the Bikinians about their evacuation on March 6, 1946. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Something Good for Mankind'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. was able to conduct these nuclear tests because it had occupied the Marshall Islands since World War II. After defeating the Japanese, who had previously occupied the archipelago, the U.S. military moved in, permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the tests began, military governor Commodore Ben H. Wyatt took a sea plane to Bikini Island to talk to the islanders. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri2knpOSqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Footage from a Navy propaganda film\u003c/a> shows Wyatt speaking to their leader, Chief Juda, through a translator named James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now, James, will you tell them that the United States government now wants to attempt to turn this great destructive force into something good for mankind, and that these experiments here at Bikini are the first step in that direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11597358 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BikiniWyattCrop-1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshall Islands, traveled to Bikini in 1946 to tell them about a plan to detonate nuclear weapons. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film then portrays the people leaving their islands willingly. But the Marshallese didn't have a choice. The U.S. moved them from island to island, using them as cheap laborers on the military bases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never asked permission,” says Barbara Rose Johnston, an anthropologist in Santa Cruz who has studied the effects of the nuclear tests on Marshallese culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just dictated: We're taking over, we're doing our test here. And in the years since, they never did any full disclosure of the extent of what they were doing, how, and why,\" she says. \"The culture of the time did not think of the Marshallese as equal people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11597359 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-800x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-800x619.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-1020x789.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-960x742.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-240x186.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-375x290.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit-520x402.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bikini-evacuation-edit.jpg 1782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshallese evacuate from their island of Bikini in 1946. \u003ccite>(National Security Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnston has unearthed \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902551/Humanitarian-Impacts-of-Nuclear-War.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously classified documents revealing an invasive medical program called Project 4.1\u003c/a> that the U.S. performed on some Marshallese to learn how radiation damages the human body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of four decades and 72 research trips to the islands, U.S. medical teams examined the Marshallese using X-rays and photography, and took samples of blood, urine and tissue. Some Marshallese even received radioisotope injections and underwent experimental surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that time, the U.S. government has formally recognized some of the harm caused by the bombings, and the U.S. government pays for health care and government assistance on the Marshall Islands. But those programs aren't available to the Marshallese who have migrated to California and other states, and many remain poor and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sole health educator in Costa Mesa, Greta Briand is the only one connecting the dots, explaining to her people how the nuclear history of the past created the medical problems of the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The 23,000 Marshallese who live in the United States have settled most heavily in Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Missouri, Washington and Oregon. In some of those states, the unique migration status of the Marshallese means they are ineligible for Medicaid. Sarah Craig has also reported on a community in Enid, Oklahoma, where most of the Marshallese are uninsured. One Enid resident, Terry Mote, is fighting to improve health care for his people. The story won the Untold Story Award from Narrative.ly. You can see her photos and \u003ca href=\"http://narrative.ly/how-years-of-ruthless-nuclear-testing-in-the-south-pacific-forged-americas-most-impoverished-ethnic-group/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read the whole story here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These illnesses, Briand says, can be traced back 70 years, to the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the U.S. occupied the atolls of the Marshall Islands and used them as a nuclear proving ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of 12 years, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always call it nuke. They nuke us!\" she says. \"And we never had these kind of diseases before. And I do believe it was because we were exposed to radiation. It was too strong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand’s own family has suffered. Her older and younger sisters are cancer survivors, of breast and thyroid, respectively. Both these cancers are on an official list from the Nuclear Claims Tribunal of \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902551/Humanitarian-Impacts-of-Nuclear-War.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">37 cancers and diseases linked to nuclear weapons testing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-800x905.jpg\" alt=\"Greta Briand wears a traditional blossom in her hair. It’s woven together with the leaves of palm fronds.\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-160x181.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-240x272.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-375x424.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GretaFlower800-520x588.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greta Briand wears a traditional blossom in her hair. It’s woven together with the leaves of palm fronds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melody Seanoa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Nuclear Refugees in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greta Briand, now almost 70, came to California when she was a teenager, to work and to go to college. She was among the first group who came to Costa Mesa, which became the first Marshallese community in the U.S. Over the years, thousands of Marshallese followed her to America, uprooted and displaced by the U.S. nuclear testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are more than 23,000 Marshallese living in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3902543/A-Community-of-Contrasts-NHPI-CA-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and about 2,000 in California.\u003c/a> They were able to come because of an agreement made between the Marshall Islands and the U.S. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://uscompact.org/about/cofa.php\">Compact of Free Association\u003c/a>. The Compact allows Marshallese to work and live freely on U.S. soil for as long as they want, but does not convey citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand originally planned to return to the Marshall Islands after she got her degree. But one reason she stayed was the health issues in her community. She wanted to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go to everybody's home, every home has a person sick -- or two -- with diabetes, cancer, heart disease,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effects of the radiation and fallout may extend even farther. According to researchers, it’s possible that the radiation from the nuclear weapons tests \u003ca href=\"http://dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/materials-based-on-reports/reports-in-brief/beir_vii_final.pdf\">can cause genetic damage\u003c/a> that can be inherited. The possibility haunts Greta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t have it, my grandkids ...,” she breaks off tearfully. “My grandkids -- or my great-grandkids -- might have cancer. And it just breaks my heart. But that's why we got to live each day, because you know we don't know what will happen tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-800x975.jpg\" alt=\"Greta Briand attends a Marshallese funeral and scatters dirt over a grave. Her younger sister, Delta Garstang, far right, is a thyroid cancer survivor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-800x975.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-1020x1243.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-1180x1438.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-960x1170.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-240x293.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-375x457.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BriandFuneral-520x634.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greta Briand attends a Marshallese funeral and scatters dirt over a grave. Her younger sister, Delta Garstang, far right, is a thyroid cancer survivor. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Melody Seanoa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>One Voice for Many Needs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Pang, an advocate at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.pacifichealthpartners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Pacific Islander Health Partnership\u003c/a> in Orange County, trained Briand to recognize and combat the barriers that prevent many Marshallese from getting treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't understand the medical challenges. They don't understand the symptoms,” Pang said of the Marshallese. “It’s difficult for them to understand, because they have very little education in terms of health. They personally will not know what to ask for, and that's why Greta was so valuable. She was such an excellent voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greta holds health classes in women’s homes, or at the church, to teach women how to do breast self-exams. She also encourages them to go to the doctor regularly, because of the health risks posed by the nuclear tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was thinking about what happened to us, and I know if I don't say anything, nobody will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand is the only Marshallese resident in Costa Mesa who is trying to help her peers navigate the U.S. health system. She’s up against a lot. Aside from severe poverty, there’s a language barrier. One in four Marshallese households don’t speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshallese culture also stigmatizes illness. Briand says this applies to any sickness: “You don't tell anybody,” she says. “Whenever a person is sick, they always think that they did something wrong and God is punishing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-800x815.jpg\" alt=\"This is an archival photo of Castle Bravo, 3.5 seconds after detonation. at a a distance of 75 nautical miles from ground zero. This bomb was the largest and dirtiest bomb ever detonated by the U.S. It was so large you can still see the crater from space. \" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-160x163.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-240x245.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-375x382.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-520x530.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/CastleBravo800-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is an archival photo of Castle Bravo, 3.5 seconds after detonation. at a a distance of 75 nautical miles from ground zero. This bomb was the largest and dirtiest bomb ever detonated by the U.S. It was so large you can still see the crater from space. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Childhood Among the Bombs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand the root of the Marshallese health problems today, it’s important to go back to the late 1940s, when the Cold War began. At that time, the nuclear arms race was heating up and the U.S. needed a place, far from the populated mainland, to test bigger and more destructive nuclear weapons. Some of the 67 nuclear weapons tested in the Marshall Islands were detonated underwater, and some were dropped from airplanes. Some of the islands were completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Briand was 5, she witnessed the largest and most radioactive of these bombs from her home island of Likiep. It was called \u003ca href=\"http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb459/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Castle Bravo \u003c/a>and it had a nuclear force equivalent to 1,000 times the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like, the sky was beautiful with orange color,\" Briand says. “And we thought it was something beautiful. We didn't know it was poison!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the detonation, dangerous clouds of radioactive, pulverized coral dust drifted across her island, coating homes and people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briand isn’t alone. Castle Bravo remains the most remembered bomb test on the islands -- and everyone received documented levels of fallout from the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kon Kon Wasay, 82, was a teenager when she saw the bomb. She remembers that she was outside playing with six other girls and one boy. “All of a sudden, we hear this loud noise and it looked like something evaporating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, her friends all got sick. They have all passed away from thyroid cancers and other diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11498781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11498781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-1020x780.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-1180x902.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-960x734.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini-520x398.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bikini.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Navy filming Commodore Wyatt “consulting” the Bikinians about their evacuation on March 6, 1946. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Something Good for Mankind'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. was able to conduct these nuclear tests because it had occupied the Marshall Islands since World War II. After defeating the Japanese, who had previously occupied the archipelago, the U.S. military moved in, permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the tests began, military governor Commodore Ben H. Wyatt took a sea plane to Bikini Island to talk to the islanders. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri2knpOSqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Footage from a Navy propaganda film\u003c/a> shows Wyatt speaking to their leader, Chief Juda, through a translator named James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now, James, will you tell them that the United States government now wants to attempt to turn this great destructive force into something good for mankind, and that these experiments here at Bikini are the first step in that direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11597358 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BikiniWyattCrop-1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshall Islands, traveled to Bikini in 1946 to tell them about a plan to detonate nuclear weapons. \u003ccite>(National Security Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film then portrays the people leaving their islands willingly. But the Marshallese didn't have a choice. The U.S. moved them from island to island, using them as cheap laborers on the military bases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never asked permission,” says Barbara Rose Johnston, an anthropologist in Santa Cruz who has studied the effects of the nuclear tests on Marshallese culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just dictated: We're taking over, we're doing our test here. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:35 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom Day 1 of the Oroville spillway crisis in February, the California Department of Water Resources has never wavered in its declarations that, despite the disintegration of the massive concrete flood control outlet and a near-disaster caused by uncontrolled emergency reservoir flows down a rapidly eroding hillside, the stability of the massive dam itself was not and has never been threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those oft-repeated assurances, public questions about the dam's integrity have persisted -- in internet forums, in community meetings and, most recently, in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/21/oroville-dam-spillway-report-alleges-dwr-ferc-negligence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> released last week under the auspices of UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's in part a reflection of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oroville-Dam-repair-is-huge-but-so-is-11227869.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public distrust of DWR\u003c/a> after the spillway incident and in part a recognition that anything that seriously compromises the 770-foot-tall dam could endanger tens of thousands of lives, cripple a key element of California's water-supply network and put the state's entire economy at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the questions have focused on an extensive area of moisture on the left side of the dam's downstream face that's known, even to the Department of Water Resources, as \"the green spot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spot, characterized by what state inspectors have termed \"lush\" vegetation during wet seasons that turns into dense thickets of dry weeds by late summer, is clearly visible on satellite images and measures about 700 feet long by 130 feet wide. That's roughly the size of two football fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-800x485.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-800x485.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-160x97.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-240x146.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-375x227.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-520x315.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22.png 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows Oroville Dam's green spot on April 14, 2015. \u003ccite>(Google Earth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week's \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3898834/Bea-and-Johnson-ROOT-CAUSES-REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a>, led by internationally known civil engineer and risk management analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/bob-bea-the-master-of-disaster-20130225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Bea\u003c/a>, included several subreports asking whether the moisture at the green spot is a sign that water is leaking through the dam and weakening its inner structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicly, DWR officials have tended to dismiss those concerns. In response to questions at community meetings in \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/2017/summaries/Oro%20Community%20Mtg%20Sum_Oroville_20170502.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oroville\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/2017/summaries/Oro%20Community%20Mtg%20Sum_YubaCity_20170509.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuba City\u003c/a> in May, for instance, the agency said the green area is due to rainfall, that it first appeared while the dam was under construction, and that it poses no risk to the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut outside public view, documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act show the Department of Water Resources has puzzled for years over the source of the seepage feeding the \"green spot\" and has been slow to act on a 2014 recommendation from independent experts to investigate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR's uncertainty is reflected in a series of dam inspections between February and July 2011 -- Northern California's last wet winter before the five-year drought -- that produced contradictory conclusions about the issue and whether it was a chronic condition or something that appeared only seasonally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 2, 2011, a DWR inspection party hiked to the green spot -- about 200 vertical feet below the top of the massive structure -- and found extensive moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cause of the seepage has yet to be determined,\" wrote Bill Pennington of DWR's Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-800x528.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-240x158.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-375x248.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-520x343.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An April 2014 inspection photograph of the Oroville Dam green spot. State officials say moisture has been observed in this area of the dam's downstream face since before Lake Oroville filled in the late 1960s, but they've never determined the source. \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One possibility, he said, was rainwater may have collected -- or become \"perched,\" in engineering parlance -- within the dam's embankment. Another possible source: an area of seepage that had been noted in the dam's abutment during construction in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennington suggested that the area should be monitored and \"unexpected changes should be reported to DSOD.\" In a field notebook, Pennington wrote that Paul Dunlap of DWR's Dam Safety Branch was \"thinking of mapping the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a May 2011 inspection visit, Pennington wrote that \"the long-established wet area at mid-slope on the left end of the dam remains active\" and recommended continued monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2011, with the lake level unseasonably high -- less than 2 feet below the edge of the dam's emergency weir -- DWR's Paul Dunlap returned to check out the green spot. He found it had \"essentially dried up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The drying out of the green spot (especially under high reservoir conditions) provides further evidence that the green spot phenomena on the dam is associated with precipitation or abutment seasonal spring activity and not seepage through the dam,\" Dunlap wrote in a report on his findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-800x422.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-800x422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-160x84.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-240x127.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-375x198.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-520x274.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30.png 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from a 2013 Oroville Dam inspection report noting the effects of moisture from the dam's \"green spot.\" \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hose periodic observations continued -- sometimes the green spot was wet, sometimes dry -- along with Pennington's repeated recommendation that dam managers figure out how to monitor the area \"so that year to year changes can be recorded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2014, an independent board met to perform the dam's five-year federal safety review. The board's recommendations, released in December, called on DWR officials to investigate the green spot and try to determine whether it posed a threat to the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue has a high historical profile that needs to be conclusively addressed,\" the consultants commented in one section of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 2014 Part 12D report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said that while much of the dam's behavior was understood, \"one issue that seems to not have been addressed by previous stability analyses is that associated with the green spot on the downstream face of the dam.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants' report noted that the final construction report for the dam, which went into service in 1968, indicated that the green spot area was observed even before Lake Oroville began rising behind the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The green spot is believed to be associated with pre-existing natural springs in the downstream left abutment area of the dam foundation,\" the Part 12D report says. The concentration of moisture, the document speculates, could be due to the composition of the rock and earth used to build the dam's downstream embankment. The fill, which may contain excessive volumes of very fine, dense material, \"may prevent free drainage of flows from those underlying springs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four consultants said that although there was no evidence of movement or instability in the green spot area, they recommended the Department of Water Resources investigate to see whether the persistent moisture could pose a risk to the dam, especially in the event an earthquake occurred during a period of particularly wet conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n response, the Department of Water Resources has told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission it intends to answer questions raised in the 2014 safety board report by September 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department last year got approval to bore a hole as deep as 150 feet in the dam's left abutment, adjacent to the green spot area. The drilling was to pursue a separate issue raised by the safety board -- the seismic vulnerability of Oroville Dam and nearby facilities. As part of that work, DWR told FERC, it planned to install an instrument for \"monitoring groundwater levels in proximity (to) the historic 'green spot' within the dam embankment. Data collected may provide beneficial in understanding the origin of seepage within the left abutment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a wave of questions raised by the UC Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management report issued last week, DWR says it's preparing a preliminary report on the green spot as well as a longer-term study of the issue. The report is due out next week, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about DWR's response to the safety board recommendations or suggestions for monitoring made in the department's own inspection reports, Mellon said regular monitoring was ongoing and that \"to date, no issues of concern have been noted.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea, the leader of the UC Berkeley study, says that DWR has been complacent in its response to a host of issues related to the dam, including the green spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think these people are looking at these pieces of evidence and using their logic, 'Well, this dam's been here for 50 years. We've seen these wet spots before, and it's performed satisfactorily,' \" Bea said. \"What they're then concluding is that as you move forward into the future it will continue to perform satisfactorily. That conclusion is premised on a belief there won't be any changes as you move into the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says that posture is similar to the one the department took to the dam's spillway. The imposing concrete structure had undergone several rounds of extensive repairs before it failed in February. Despite that history of recurring problems, there's no evidence that the department considered the possibility that the spillway might need to be rebuilt, and DWR inspections through last August consistently declared the structure fit for continued use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They kept thinking (that despite) these early warning signs -- 'Yeah, they're unusual, we've got to put concrete patches on those cracks. And yeah, there are voids under the concrete that we'll fill with concrete' -- it's going to remain stable,\" Bea said. \"That proved to be disastrously wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spot, characterized by what state inspectors have termed \"lush\" vegetation during wet seasons that turns into dense thickets of dry weeds by late summer, is clearly visible on satellite images and measures about 700 feet long by 130 feet wide. That's roughly the size of two football fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-800x485.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-800x485.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-160x97.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-240x146.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-375x227.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22-520x315.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-11.28.22.png 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows Oroville Dam's green spot on April 14, 2015. \u003ccite>(Google Earth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week's \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3898834/Bea-and-Johnson-ROOT-CAUSES-REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a>, led by internationally known civil engineer and risk management analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/bob-bea-the-master-of-disaster-20130225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Bea\u003c/a>, included several subreports asking whether the moisture at the green spot is a sign that water is leaking through the dam and weakening its inner structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicly, DWR officials have tended to dismiss those concerns. In response to questions at community meetings in \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/2017/summaries/Oro%20Community%20Mtg%20Sum_Oroville_20170502.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oroville\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/2017/summaries/Oro%20Community%20Mtg%20Sum_YubaCity_20170509.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuba City\u003c/a> in May, for instance, the agency said the green area is due to rainfall, that it first appeared while the dam was under construction, and that it poses no risk to the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ut outside public view, documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act show the Department of Water Resources has puzzled for years over the source of the seepage feeding the \"green spot\" and has been slow to act on a 2014 recommendation from independent experts to investigate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR's uncertainty is reflected in a series of dam inspections between February and July 2011 -- Northern California's last wet winter before the five-year drought -- that produced contradictory conclusions about the issue and whether it was a chronic condition or something that appeared only seasonally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 2, 2011, a DWR inspection party hiked to the green spot -- about 200 vertical feet below the top of the massive structure -- and found extensive moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cause of the seepage has yet to be determined,\" wrote Bill Pennington of DWR's Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-800x528.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-240x158.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-375x248.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-10.13.55-520x343.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An April 2014 inspection photograph of the Oroville Dam green spot. State officials say moisture has been observed in this area of the dam's downstream face since before Lake Oroville filled in the late 1960s, but they've never determined the source. \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One possibility, he said, was rainwater may have collected -- or become \"perched,\" in engineering parlance -- within the dam's embankment. Another possible source: an area of seepage that had been noted in the dam's abutment during construction in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennington suggested that the area should be monitored and \"unexpected changes should be reported to DSOD.\" In a field notebook, Pennington wrote that Paul Dunlap of DWR's Dam Safety Branch was \"thinking of mapping the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a May 2011 inspection visit, Pennington wrote that \"the long-established wet area at mid-slope on the left end of the dam remains active\" and recommended continued monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2011, with the lake level unseasonably high -- less than 2 feet below the edge of the dam's emergency weir -- DWR's Paul Dunlap returned to check out the green spot. He found it had \"essentially dried up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The drying out of the green spot (especially under high reservoir conditions) provides further evidence that the green spot phenomena on the dam is associated with precipitation or abutment seasonal spring activity and not seepage through the dam,\" Dunlap wrote in a report on his findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-800x422.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-800x422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-160x84.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-240x127.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-375x198.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30-520x274.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-28-09.58.30.png 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from a 2013 Oroville Dam inspection report noting the effects of moisture from the dam's \"green spot.\" \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hose periodic observations continued -- sometimes the green spot was wet, sometimes dry -- along with Pennington's repeated recommendation that dam managers figure out how to monitor the area \"so that year to year changes can be recorded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2014, an independent board met to perform the dam's five-year federal safety review. The board's recommendations, released in December, called on DWR officials to investigate the green spot and try to determine whether it posed a threat to the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue has a high historical profile that needs to be conclusively addressed,\" the consultants commented in one section of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 2014 Part 12D report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said that while much of the dam's behavior was understood, \"one issue that seems to not have been addressed by previous stability analyses is that associated with the green spot on the downstream face of the dam.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants' report noted that the final construction report for the dam, which went into service in 1968, indicated that the green spot area was observed even before Lake Oroville began rising behind the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The green spot is believed to be associated with pre-existing natural springs in the downstream left abutment area of the dam foundation,\" the Part 12D report says. The concentration of moisture, the document speculates, could be due to the composition of the rock and earth used to build the dam's downstream embankment. The fill, which may contain excessive volumes of very fine, dense material, \"may prevent free drainage of flows from those underlying springs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four consultants said that although there was no evidence of movement or instability in the green spot area, they recommended the Department of Water Resources investigate to see whether the persistent moisture could pose a risk to the dam, especially in the event an earthquake occurred during a period of particularly wet conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n response, the Department of Water Resources has told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission it intends to answer questions raised in the 2014 safety board report by September 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department last year got approval to bore a hole as deep as 150 feet in the dam's left abutment, adjacent to the green spot area. The drilling was to pursue a separate issue raised by the safety board -- the seismic vulnerability of Oroville Dam and nearby facilities. As part of that work, DWR told FERC, it planned to install an instrument for \"monitoring groundwater levels in proximity (to) the historic 'green spot' within the dam embankment. Data collected may provide beneficial in understanding the origin of seepage within the left abutment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a wave of questions raised by the UC Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management report issued last week, DWR says it's preparing a preliminary report on the green spot as well as a longer-term study of the issue. The report is due out next week, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about DWR's response to the safety board recommendations or suggestions for monitoring made in the department's own inspection reports, Mellon said regular monitoring was ongoing and that \"to date, no issues of concern have been noted.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea, the leader of the UC Berkeley study, says that DWR has been complacent in its response to a host of issues related to the dam, including the green spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think these people are looking at these pieces of evidence and using their logic, 'Well, this dam's been here for 50 years. We've seen these wet spots before, and it's performed satisfactorily,' \" Bea said. \"What they're then concluding is that as you move forward into the future it will continue to perform satisfactorily. That conclusion is premised on a belief there won't be any changes as you move into the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says that posture is similar to the one the department took to the dam's spillway. The imposing concrete structure had undergone several rounds of extensive repairs before it failed in February. Despite that history of recurring problems, there's no evidence that the department considered the possibility that the spillway might need to be rebuilt, and DWR inspections through last August consistently declared the structure fit for continued use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been nearly two years since a pipeline rupture at the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon storage site north of Los Angeles caused the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/25/study-porter-ranch-gas-leak-doubled-l-a-s-methane-emissions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largest methane leak in U.S. history\u003c/a>. It forced thousands of people out of their homes and was blamed for scores of illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of repair and safety upgrades, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/aliso/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a> and state \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/AlisoCanyon\">Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources\u003c/a> cleared the facility to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/20/as-state-clears-troubled-gas-field-to-reopen-governor-calls-for-it-to-close/\">resume gas injection and storage\u003c/a> at about 30 percent capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zbV4NEE3BNy9xsvHeTiRCFY0X5Tqsu0G\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the county are due in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday to seek a temporary restraining order blocking operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County says seismic and other risk assessments have yet to be completed. The Aliso Canyon facility sits on the Santa Susana fault line, which some experts predict could experience a major earthquake sometime in the next 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the fear is that could shear all or most of the wells and cause a gas leak far greater than the one a couple years ago,” says attorney Skip Miller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"The Aliso Canyon facility sits on the Santa Susana fault line that some experts predict could experience a major earthquake sometime in the next 50 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aliso Canyon facility sits on the Santa Susana fault line that some experts predict could experience a major earthquake sometime in the next 50 years. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The analysis needs to be completed and it has not been. And then they (SoCal Gas) have to do a risk assessment, and prepare an emergency response plan in case, God forbid, there is a major earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither SoCal Gas nor the California Public Utilities Commission responded to numerous interview requests. But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/1443741017995/N17G064A_Aliso_Community-notification_v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statements released this week\u003c/a>, SoCal Gas said a host of safeguards to prevent any future leaks will be in effect if and when the site reopens, including daily spot inspections and aerial tests to measure background levels of methane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCal Gas says a restart of Aliso Canyon is critical to meet the energy needs of the region, and that without it consumers could experience shortages and blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics call these claims “scare tactics,” pointing out that the predicted energy shortages never materialized in the year and a half since operation at Aliso Canyon ceased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-month natural gas leak did, however, sicken scores of people and forced SoCal Gas to pay for an extensive health study of affected residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ongoing protests in Porter Ranch continued this week when residents got wind of news that the gas injection and storage field was cleared to resume limited operation. \u003ccite>(Rick Canter / Save Porter Ranch Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ongoing protests in Porter Ranch continued this week when residents got wind of news that the gas injection and storage field was cleared to resume limited operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day people want to see this facility shut down and decommissioned,” says Alexandra Nagy of environmental watchdog group \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food and Water Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She applauds L.A. County’s effort to stall Aliso Canyon’s restart, but says county and state leaders need to keep pressing for a total and immediate shuttering of the aging natural gas facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t needed it in the last year and half it has been offline,” says Nagy. “And with new renewable energy like battery storage coming on board in Southern California, we want to see a quick replacement of this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a\u003ca href=\"http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2017_releases/2017-07-19-energy-commission-chair-releases-letter-ailso-canyon_nr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter last week to the CPUC\u003c/a>, the head of the California Energy Commission, Robert B. Weisenmiller, said, “Governor Brown has asked me to plan for the permanent closure of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, and I urge the California Public Utilities Commission to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/calEvent.aspx?id=6442454005&dt=8/1/2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPUC holds a daylong public workshop \u003c/a>in L.A. to discuss the long-term feasibility of keeping Aliso Canyon in operation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the fear is that could shear all or most of the wells and cause a gas leak far greater than the one a couple years ago,” says attorney Skip Miller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11598772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11598772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"The Aliso Canyon facility sits on the Santa Susana fault line that some experts predict could experience a major earthquake sometime in the next 50 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/AlisoCanyon-800x471-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aliso Canyon facility sits on the Santa Susana fault line that some experts predict could experience a major earthquake sometime in the next 50 years. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The analysis needs to be completed and it has not been. And then they (SoCal Gas) have to do a risk assessment, and prepare an emergency response plan in case, God forbid, there is a major earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither SoCal Gas nor the California Public Utilities Commission responded to numerous interview requests. But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/1443741017995/N17G064A_Aliso_Community-notification_v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statements released this week\u003c/a>, SoCal Gas said a host of safeguards to prevent any future leaks will be in effect if and when the site reopens, including daily spot inspections and aerial tests to measure background levels of methane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCal Gas says a restart of Aliso Canyon is critical to meet the energy needs of the region, and that without it consumers could experience shortages and blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics call these claims “scare tactics,” pointing out that the predicted energy shortages never materialized in the year and a half since operation at Aliso Canyon ceased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-month natural gas leak did, however, sicken scores of people and forced SoCal Gas to pay for an extensive health study of affected residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ALISO-DEMO-crosswalk-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ongoing protests in Porter Ranch continued this week when residents got wind of news that the gas injection and storage field was cleared to resume limited operation. \u003ccite>(Rick Canter / Save Porter Ranch Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ongoing protests in Porter Ranch continued this week when residents got wind of news that the gas injection and storage field was cleared to resume limited operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day people want to see this facility shut down and decommissioned,” says Alexandra Nagy of environmental watchdog group \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food and Water Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She applauds L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>Northern California has many attractions, but the fact that it’s prime tick habitat isn’t one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the angst surrounding outdoor activities is that tick hotspots are unevenly distributed on a patchy landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Medicine has the tendency to want a vaccine or a clear antibiotic silver bullet, and I don’t think the Lyme system gives us that luxury.’\u003ccite>Nate Nieto, University of Northern Arizona\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One moment you’re strolling through redwood forests, the next through oak forests, and a couple of hours later you may come across scenic chaparral. While on this iconic hike, you probably don’t realize that you’ve moved through both high- and low-risk Lyme disease areas. The question is, do you know where you are most at risk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is in the oak forest where layers of rich leaf litter are a kind of Club Med for ticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s Always Tick Season\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tick season” exists year-round in northern California. The highest risk is in the spring and early summer due to an abundance of juvenile ticks, known as nymphs (the most virulent life-stage). However, peak diagnosis time extends into July, because it can take a few weeks to realize that you have the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer is also particularly dangerous for Lyme disease because that’s when people spend the most time outside, and many of the most beautiful hiking areas tend to be tick-ridden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1870758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s always tick season in Northern California. Peak season is spring and early summer. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lyme Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people associate Lyme disease with the Northeastern U.S. and the upper Midwest, and for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html\">good reason\u003c/a>; the vast majority of cases are reported there, due mostly to the fact that the landscape is blanketed with prime tick habitat. On the west coast, the risk is real, but it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>How to prevent a tick bite in the first place.\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dress the part\u003c/strong>: Ticks tend to like to climb upwards, so wear full-length pants, tucked into your socks, and a full length shirt, tucked into your pants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pesticide options\u003c/strong>: Chemical tick-repellents or acaricides can be very effective at low dosages. Be sure to read manufacturer’s instructions carefully.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Clean your body and clothes\u003c/strong>: Take a shower once you get home from a hike and throw your clothes in a hot dryer for a 1-hour cycle.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Check your pets and yourself\u003c/strong>: Perform a thorough tick check when you get home. Ticks can travel into your house on dogs and cats.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There are definitely patches in California where the risk is just as high as the East –it’s just not the same spatial extent,” says Dan Salkeld, research scientist at Colorado State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overall abundance of Lyme ticks is relatively low on the West Coast; however, the risk is spread unevenly. Hikers can move from high-risk area to a low-risk area and never know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, “You can be in one valley and rates of Lyme can be as high as in upstate New York, Connecticut or Rhode Island,” says Nate Nieto, a microbiologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. “Then you go over one ridge, the habitat changes completely –and there’s nothing,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what puts Californians at risk is a lack of awareness — among the public and even among doctors. Much of the research and public health information is based on east coast ecology and may not apply to the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Californian physicians, Lyme disease is just not on the radar, even though according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarealyme.org/\">Bay Area Lyme Foundation\u003c/a>, Lyme-infected ticks have been located in 42 of California’s 58 counties (highest incidence were in Trinity, Humbolt and Mendocino as of 2014). About 100 cases of Lyme disease are reported in California each year, but according to Supervising Public Health Biologist Kerry Padgett of the state Department of Public Health, the disease is likely more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an under-diagnosis and under-reporting of Lyme disease in California,” says Padgett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Ticks Make Us Sick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyme disease is caused by a microscopic spiral-shaped bacteria called \u003cem>borrelia burgdorferi\u003c/em>. On the west coast, these Lyme disease-causing bacteria live inside the guts of the western blacklegged tick and can travel into the blood streams of bitten animals.Ticks generally live for two or three years. They are born Lyme-free, and will contract or transmit Lyme during feeding, once during each of their three life stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1870913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-520x372.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-bellied lizards are our friends. Their blood actually cures infected ticks of Lyme disease. The “grapes” in this lizard’s ear are all feeding ticks. \u003ccite>(Ervic Aquino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a Lyme-infected tick bites, it typically takes 36-48 hours for the bacteria to make the journey from the tick’s gut to their mouth and into the blood of their host. The process can take as little as 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15-20 percent of backlegged ticks contain Lyme disease during their nymph stage, and that number is much lower, 1-2 percent, in adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Forest Full of Frenemies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine disease risk of a particular place, researchers look to some of the tick’s favorite foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common reservoir of Lyme disease — the species that initially infects ticks — is the western gray squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So avoid gray squirrel habitat and you’re safe? Not so fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the blue-bellied lizard (also known as the western fence lizard), which is naturally immune to Lyme disease, and has special proteins in its blood that will cleanse infected ticks of the pathogen.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>What to do if you find a tick on you:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1870759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-960x618.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-520x335.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult (left) and nymph (right) western blacklegged ticks. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lyme Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you find a tick on your body, don’t panic! Remove the tick and keep track of what happens.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Is the tick feeding? That is, is the tick embedded in the skin?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the tick is embedded, slowly and steadily, with even pressure, remove the entire tick by pulling it straight out with a pair of tweezers. Do not jerk or twist the tick. Remove any mouthparts that break off during removal. Then, if possible, save the tick in a jar or plastic bag. DO NOT try to kill the tick with oil or matches while it’s feeding. (If you do, it will release the contents of its gut into you.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Clean the bite area with rubbing alcohol or soap and warm water.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long did it feed? If it’s less than 36 hours, there’s a high probability that you are safe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pay attention to your symptoms. If in 6-to-12 days, you have any kind of fever, go and see a doctor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A bulls-eye rash around the tick bite is a sure-fire way to know if you’ve contracted Lyme, but this symptom only shows up in 50-70 percent of cases. Other symptoms include headache, fatigue, and skin rash.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, a tick could feed on a squirrel and contract Lyme, which could then be neutralized when it bites a lizard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into dense black oak woodland, which is prime habitat for ticks and squirrels, we find a higher proportion of infected ticks,” explains Salkeld. “However, if you move into a broken clearing with more light, you’re going to find more lizards, and the prevalence of Lyme goes down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyme disease involves many different species and is ecologically complex, which makes it a notoriously difficult problem to solve for researchers and public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medicine has the tendency to want a vaccine or a clear antibiotic silver bullet, and I don’t think the Lyme system gives us that luxury,” says Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyme disease is something that we call, in the science world, a complex system, meaning that there’s a bunch going on here,” he continues. “ there’s a bunch of hosts, there’s a bunch of vectors, and there’s a bunch of pathogens, and that makes things difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mapping a Pathogen\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s diverse landscape and the complex interplay among species makes predicting Lyme tricky. However, the greatest risk posed to Californians might be a lack of awareness. Doctors here are less likely to suspect Lyme when patients come in with characteristic symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have talked to physicians who say that they are not aware of Lyme disease in California,” says Salkeld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations, such as the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, along with researchers like Nieto and Salkeld, are working to change the narrative and build the necessary evidence to make doctors aware of the scale of the problem. The foundation has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/bay-area-lyme-foundation-offers-free-tick-testing-nationwide/\">program\u003c/a> offering free tick testing nationwide, which aims to map tick-borne diseases across the country by encouraging concerned citizens to send in samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on gathering real empirical data to show that Lyme is in the ecosystems of the West Coast,” says Nieto, “We’re getting clinical samples, ecological [tick] samples, and wildlife host samples…so we can change the educational paradigm within the medical schools and say, ‘It’s not just the Northeast and upper Midwest’—it’s in California too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Californians should be aware of ticks, and the risks of tick-borne diseases, but the fear of disease should not keep them from enjoying the great outdoors,” adds Padgett. “I really do feel it’s possible to stay tick-safe while recreating and spending time outside.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Northern California has many attractions, but the fact that it’s prime tick habitat isn’t one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the angst surrounding outdoor activities is that tick hotspots are unevenly distributed on a patchy landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Medicine has the tendency to want a vaccine or a clear antibiotic silver bullet, and I don’t think the Lyme system gives us that luxury.’\u003ccite>Nate Nieto, University of Northern Arizona\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One moment you’re strolling through redwood forests, the next through oak forests, and a couple of hours later you may come across scenic chaparral. While on this iconic hike, you probably don’t realize that you’ve moved through both high- and low-risk Lyme disease areas. The question is, do you know where you are most at risk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is in the oak forest where layers of rich leaf litter are a kind of Club Med for ticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s Always Tick Season\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tick season” exists year-round in northern California. The highest risk is in the spring and early summer due to an abundance of juvenile ticks, known as nymphs (the most virulent life-stage). However, peak diagnosis time extends into July, because it can take a few weeks to realize that you have the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer is also particularly dangerous for Lyme disease because that’s when people spend the most time outside, and many of the most beautiful hiking areas tend to be tick-ridden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1870758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-on-Leaf_Shutterstock_99641744_-e1500680859219-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s always tick season in Northern California. Peak season is spring and early summer. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lyme Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people associate Lyme disease with the Northeastern U.S. and the upper Midwest, and for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html\">good reason\u003c/a>; the vast majority of cases are reported there, due mostly to the fact that the landscape is blanketed with prime tick habitat. On the west coast, the risk is real, but it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>How to prevent a tick bite in the first place.\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dress the part\u003c/strong>: Ticks tend to like to climb upwards, so wear full-length pants, tucked into your socks, and a full length shirt, tucked into your pants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pesticide options\u003c/strong>: Chemical tick-repellents or acaricides can be very effective at low dosages. Be sure to read manufacturer’s instructions carefully.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Clean your body and clothes\u003c/strong>: Take a shower once you get home from a hike and throw your clothes in a hot dryer for a 1-hour cycle.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Check your pets and yourself\u003c/strong>: Perform a thorough tick check when you get home. Ticks can travel into your house on dogs and cats.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There are definitely patches in California where the risk is just as high as the East –it’s just not the same spatial extent,” says Dan Salkeld, research scientist at Colorado State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overall abundance of Lyme ticks is relatively low on the West Coast; however, the risk is spread unevenly. Hikers can move from high-risk area to a low-risk area and never know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, “You can be in one valley and rates of Lyme can be as high as in upstate New York, Connecticut or Rhode Island,” says Nate Nieto, a microbiologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. “Then you go over one ridge, the habitat changes completely –and there’s nothing,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what puts Californians at risk is a lack of awareness — among the public and even among doctors. Much of the research and public health information is based on east coast ecology and may not apply to the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Californian physicians, Lyme disease is just not on the radar, even though according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarealyme.org/\">Bay Area Lyme Foundation\u003c/a>, Lyme-infected ticks have been located in 42 of California’s 58 counties (highest incidence were in Trinity, Humbolt and Mendocino as of 2014). About 100 cases of Lyme disease are reported in California each year, but according to Supervising Public Health Biologist Kerry Padgett of the state Department of Public Health, the disease is likely more widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an under-diagnosis and under-reporting of Lyme disease in California,” says Padgett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Ticks Make Us Sick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyme disease is caused by a microscopic spiral-shaped bacteria called \u003cem>borrelia burgdorferi\u003c/em>. On the west coast, these Lyme disease-causing bacteria live inside the guts of the western blacklegged tick and can travel into the blood streams of bitten animals.Ticks generally live for two or three years. They are born Lyme-free, and will contract or transmit Lyme during feeding, once during each of their three life stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1870913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up-520x372.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/lizard-with-ticks-closer-up.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-bellied lizards are our friends. Their blood actually cures infected ticks of Lyme disease. The “grapes” in this lizard’s ear are all feeding ticks. \u003ccite>(Ervic Aquino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a Lyme-infected tick bites, it typically takes 36-48 hours for the bacteria to make the journey from the tick’s gut to their mouth and into the blood of their host. The process can take as little as 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15-20 percent of backlegged ticks contain Lyme disease during their nymph stage, and that number is much lower, 1-2 percent, in adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Forest Full of Frenemies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine disease risk of a particular place, researchers look to some of the tick’s favorite foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common reservoir of Lyme disease — the species that initially infects ticks — is the western gray squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So avoid gray squirrel habitat and you’re safe? Not so fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the blue-bellied lizard (also known as the western fence lizard), which is naturally immune to Lyme disease, and has special proteins in its blood that will cleanse infected ticks of the pathogen.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>What to do if you find a tick on you:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1870759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1870759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-960x618.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1-520x335.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Tick-sizes_Nate_larger-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult (left) and nymph (right) western blacklegged ticks. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lyme Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you find a tick on your body, don’t panic! Remove the tick and keep track of what happens.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Is the tick feeding? That is, is the tick embedded in the skin?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the tick is embedded, slowly and steadily, with even pressure, remove the entire tick by pulling it straight out with a pair of tweezers. Do not jerk or twist the tick. Remove any mouthparts that break off during removal. Then, if possible, save the tick in a jar or plastic bag. DO NOT try to kill the tick with oil or matches while it’s feeding. (If you do, it will release the contents of its gut into you.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Clean the bite area with rubbing alcohol or soap and warm water.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long did it feed? If it’s less than 36 hours, there’s a high probability that you are safe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pay attention to your symptoms. If in 6-to-12 days, you have any kind of fever, go and see a doctor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A bulls-eye rash around the tick bite is a sure-fire way to know if you’ve contracted Lyme, but this symptom only shows up in 50-70 percent of cases. Other symptoms include headache, fatigue, and skin rash.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, a tick could feed on a squirrel and contract Lyme, which could then be neutralized when it bites a lizard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into dense black oak woodland, which is prime habitat for ticks and squirrels, we find a higher proportion of infected ticks,” explains Salkeld. “However, if you move into a broken clearing with more light, you’re going to find more lizards, and the prevalence of Lyme goes down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyme disease involves many different species and is ecologically complex, which makes it a notoriously difficult problem to solve for researchers and public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medicine has the tendency to want a vaccine or a clear antibiotic silver bullet, and I don’t think the Lyme system gives us that luxury,” says Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyme disease is something that we call, in the science world, a complex system, meaning that there’s a bunch going on here,” he continues. “ there’s a bunch of hosts, there’s a bunch of vectors, and there’s a bunch of pathogens, and that makes things difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mapping a Pathogen\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s diverse landscape and the complex interplay among species makes predicting Lyme tricky. However, the greatest risk posed to Californians might be a lack of awareness. Doctors here are less likely to suspect Lyme when patients come in with characteristic symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have talked to physicians who say that they are not aware of Lyme disease in California,” says Salkeld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations, such as the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, along with researchers like Nieto and Salkeld, are working to change the narrative and build the necessary evidence to make doctors aware of the scale of the problem. The foundation has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/bay-area-lyme-foundation-offers-free-tick-testing-nationwide/\">program\u003c/a> offering free tick testing nationwide, which aims to map tick-borne diseases across the country by encouraging concerned citizens to send in samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on gathering real empirical data to show that Lyme is in the ecosystems of the West Coast,” says Nieto, “We’re getting clinical samples, ecological [tick] samples, and wildlife host samples…so we can change the educational paradigm within the medical schools and say, ‘It’s not just the Northeast and upper Midwest’—it’s in California too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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