Come and get it - free plutonium sludge to fertilize your organic garden

Back in 1968 Janis Turner and her husband rejoiced at the opportunity to receive “free sludge” from Livermore Water Reclamation Plant (LWRP) for a garden that for 35 years had fed family, friends, and others with organic produce. Fifteen years after the first distribution, plutonium levels tested high in sludge drying beds. Sludge giveaways stopped in 1976. But, plutonium continued to be dumped into Livermore’s sewer system. By 1987, the area became designated a superfund clean-up site.