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M 2 0 ' La Der Mr.-Invenstein:
Enclosed ycu Parker cadresced to Secretary of the Interior Udall in Ji relces questions. concerning a propoccd atonic. cnergy power plent to be constructed by Pn.cific Gac ond Electric Corpany en S d Eend, Celifornia.
A copy of our reply to her letter also is -
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. Since the et2cstions involve problets related to licensing 'vrocedure cnd radioactivity we vould c.ppreciate your agency replyin6 to
,rc. Parker.
d Please send us a copy of your letter to Mrs. Parker.
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j Troubla at Detroit i
Sonoma County residents who l
have relied upart local, state, and federal acencies to <!cter-i mina whether or not the pro-l posed nucitar power plant for Bodega Bay is a dan.;ct tre in.
I vited to read Drew Pearson's I
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son wri;.es. a nuclear pow er plant near Detroit had a mrious j
accider.t v. hen it tried to put i
0 sodic;:. through the steam gen-l cratcrs for the first timo. Ec-
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fore Dec.12, the company (Dc.
trcit Edsion) had a series of seven accidents which cost $2.5 i
i mill!cn and 8 months to repair. '
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out, Pearson writes, "the most J
serious of all occurred on Dec.
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12." The Detroit reactor acci.
dont is being compared wi'Ji oce in Er. gland which became "so bot" that it was ordered abandoned in 1957 by Prime 3finist.tr Macruillan. The utility tr.cguh (who aho sasure the peo. i ple of Sanome County that the i exp frimental tea: tor planned for ledera Btv is eafen day of l
the Detnit eccident - we now h.we a b itier underst:nding of the pittiead and arc in a bet.
ter pus!Gon to proccett! The Are:+..c Ener;ry Con.nusion is ur;uat utility comparues to ht.ild w! car pl.mts, and of fer, fst :;evernment contracts for p;nt;xium for thw wha do. In the c;te of tr.e Detroit (Laguna Hetch) r oe:cr, neither the i
AW, the U. S. Public 1?calth s
Smv.e. nor any other 10 cal.
l stat. or federa! :r,ency charged v'h prot tmg the publi.' fro n sum den:;er, forano what hy-pavd ca Dec IE Tna ste.'y of thr-aedden. wat almost totahv gJippros:c in tr.e news. Todcy l
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.sicoed to.pn.tinue crerstion. A scoJ say to hesd off 8uch an q
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' As - a further ' precaution, PG&E plans to run their trans.
j mission lines over head. As the l
plant will be only a few hun.'
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@Y Andrea$ decides to make a run N
for 11. Our Board of Superv! sors has considerately.. granted the
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their 1mes dorrn the length of
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Doran Park, our finest beach lTIIURSDAY I
and recreation area.
Ah, promess!
By this courtesy.the. board The supervisors.
<1 do d**va" pu,t hake' au.
For "p'rivate profit, Tltey, cy saved PG.t r somethin in the l
bl2e rand EDITOlt:
celghborhood of a hundred mil.
hon dollars, as the park is so CT881 e perm!
j Word bas it that construction situated as to provide a direct
,'j g consequences,dless' of. po of PG&E's access road to its route for the ' all important proposed nuclear power plant at transmission lines.
and 'withoht
fg a ny"recluired tom D hk,Qa Bodega has begun.
Th4se steel towers, we - cre jgc hearmas on such m, have pu@
This is good news. The years told, w}!! be 50 feit squarc 'at of waiting will soon bare the the base, hundreds of feet high, a
cittrs, or5 as.to the,dily inform th6'90bliU
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-. fruit of progress... the largest and three abreast when. the exact use they planir '
i reactor ever built in the U. S' plant is "a
right at our very door.
they are. c'omplete. Of coittse, d dur land! OM 'al:r.ost i~
going to look rafher m
s to the conclusioHhst Ff' And one can feel assured that out of place on all possible hazards attendant to sand bar. The mthst' narriw pe p'fc don't count,f,EltdudW oie esthetic brce scale use of atomic energy may even consider them a tragic LEE M M.
have been carefully minimized, destruction of beasty, but we g93g g,gf The public has been told by
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AEC, PUC. PGaE, and.%fr. Devij progress and profits.
hims. elf, that every probability Then, too, there are cornpen.
hr.s been plar. nod for. And with sations. %"Ith 220,000 volts in westerlien running an average
.those lines they would be just of cnly 15 knots during most of dandy for roasting hot.doga.
I the. year, residents can be Also, assuming four lines per' t cheered by the thought thq l
' tower, making 2,640,000 volts i
most of us will have as long as !
In all,,1magine the fer. should !
and famd.s pets m case the re.
ablaze w, break with the' beach
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an hour to euccate children the lines ah bikini. clad beautfr.2.
amor reacts like the Franken.
The undertakers would have the Stein monar it in not supposed time of their lives.
ta h There are other precautions, But. arkin. there Ix littlu to
- too, worr; abonn, The. whole westerly end of Tbc hude: ape Iar mdce Doran Park will be fenced off urnumj wil; he adorned with from public access. This to as.
M,ter counters with built.in i sure that no one is too close in abrm >9tems fwr quick detec.
case there was a slip of the tion of any impending disaster, slide rule, or a technician hung If calanuty mould stnke there ;
on one too many the night be.
j in Mttu c to Irnth over either.
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hee no less than a $60.000.000 closed. thero is going to be some.
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- nsurance polley to take care of kind,of warning syrtem for the i tha damage suits; and Uncle
.e fi"Shing fleet should the harbor t
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4 ave to be closed ofL Whathap. 's p
vid'rg another 5500.000/4 0.
pens if they are ' running be.
t l*nless tinngs have gotter. out,
ime a stonn,' hasn't been clari.
I of bein.1 lately, this should take.
fled. Stand apd face it, I sup.
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pose. !!adidatc'vity or tl e afr t@
sea. Not 'vtry fair for the fish.
b erts.n, but "the bwyt'rs say !Ps a
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cies are well known to readets lie an'd quasi-public agencies at ened b door. y the atomic giant next S "*tL'$.NS."**-*' 8'**
o'! the Sebastopol Times, Bode;;a Bay, and these compli, tale 'he recreational and con' t
The ID6t<2 Grand Jury Nc4 servMba phreJ Then there is the project of With concern.for the public its report in Superior Court' the State Division of Beaches welfare-present and futurc~. early this year, and (Ac pub!!c One major problem to the and Parks to extend,its sea.
the 1961 62 Sonoma County criticisms in the Bodega B natt2coninded it the Pacific sho,re pek system along aF Gas and Electric ' Company's maming ocean frontage.
Grand Jury strongly urged s'teps matter are still raging.
re-plans for s giant atomic-power.
to preserve the natural scenic.
"Many-sided challenges an beaufy and the recreational 10 problem 6" and ',he "many gen.d ed generating plant on Bodega Still another agency, the U,S.
uine differences of opinion - flead-Coast' Guard, approved a tracue tential of the county.
it recommended, for example. v6 iced 'up to that time wet, Secondly, the University of stktion' in the bDy at,DOrkn that "the strictest standards ofnotea by the Grand Jury use and architecture" t'e im There w a., and continues in California has long sour.ht the Park. And Sohoma County it'seff s cal rescurch center, ' a.dch biot.) ar
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Wh11e feMslatin: for tMs lter engineerin;; studies &cerned crnmental or comm"This rou complex of interests, tha t Baard of Supervisors
-gov. 8 to rule out underground trans.
ercial-that SEBASTOPOL TD*$ a was urged by the Grand Jury to may influence scenic and/or TMW mission kssp in mind the scenic and i consideration.
lines from practical recreational values'."
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recreational necessities et LW pecommends that all county of efnte that even these extendre arece cs well as the commercial, industrial and the monetart.fieers and agencies re examine t
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the feasibility of some practl.
ed along the Russian River W#
em In this spirit of universal con, esbic alternative route for the and at Jenner and Fort Ross, s, o illustrate cern, the Jury urged more be transmission lines that would the Board of Supervisors re.P Jury's consensus, it is (Jr Cred donejo avoid erection of power be away from public beach plied that no developments that there will plant transmission lines which Meas-in those be a growing public.neeq _and.
wruld detract from the scente )
areas were being Sirnilar concern for develop.
considered at the time.
appreciation-somewhere in this beauty at Bodega Bay.
- The county ' lready has ap. iment elsewhere in the county's The emphasis on nature and coastal recreational area -R i
such services as could be pre.,
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j scenic and recreational areas play areas was continued by proved vided by an imagint.thes ahd a route for PG&rs !was expressed by the Jury.
the Jury with this admonition: judicious development ~ of tu /
transnussion lines from the,
- .This Grand Jury recognizes pt:nt site at Campbell Cove I It recommended that reerca-that prudence suggests the con county's assets at Bodegata7?'
across the mouth of the Bay tional interests,'particularly in
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anp'lloweverf.ener4Hyystwant along he Jenner area, be
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[i the Grand Jury afeguarded" and that the Board Mh ed the Jury report.h2 Doran Park randspitf' stat.!of Supervisors "give adequate pasent and future generatio M
'and timely public notice of anyt g And,later m tbc report:
"We do not prerume to state i e
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