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rnia is ill advised and req ue. to put a nuclear of California, Department 'of NatAccording to " Geolog e ook of the.
st the permission be power San Andreas fault goes smack d b ural Resources,SF Bay counties, Bulletin on page 153 it describes shiftright thru the middle of Bodega,HDivision a
of 16' and 21' respectivelys in the
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no indication from the map I hav PG&E did not own any property is ance from would utilize any of the feature rop take e seen in the Sebastopol Times thn the area. T south of west. There iscooling water out of the bay and d s offered by the protected harb PG&E could use that is both at the plant much of the 800 milo length of Cischarge it into the shore Nuevo,between Bolinas Bay and Drake's Estero clear Bodega Head.either of which would be closeof population and ea i
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ppen in of a locomotivequake. Hor:ever, on made lend th ng on the rocky hills were no. Page 153 of the Ge l 4
e damage was terrific. I have bt awakened by the 19 Station. " Pacific Discover "in overturned on it and,its tra of May 1%3, page 26 s right side taken near Point Reyy states,...he journal of the California Acadeg y
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are lar,ger than one's headvertical-1 zone northwest of San Francis as-Tomales Bey trench astride th, and on the very edge of the fault y them..
Such co Bay is whole Bodega Head complex could one of them zone; without the pro. The plan is to locate the San An lose their station batteries get up and waltz around durinper solid rock foundati and blow the plant sky highoptrate their disconnect swit h e plant all over the floor, and without g a tremor. They could c es power 1
phase line along Doran Park t any capability to
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ACROSS THE FAULT! How silly o the mainland south of the t phase to phase shorts, thereand the east side of the fault e system can PG&E get? With the west sid o run their three aw-ing the overhead wires own of Bodega RIGHT will rain all over the landscap e of the fault gee-ing will be blinding flashes, globul ths park. Then the poor di will swing together for Oakland will have the nast e, plus killing people unfort spatcher in the penthouse ato es of molten copper station he would not have had t a
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2 inches ve lchofthat "since thePress) g ground west "of the.fau1(ip mb i
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y,cr i tha system,' and, jsoon they snapof the*ea*si side of the's fall to the earth, kill p )ide of the fault and o-wir s would hav, so'op. If PG&E lea,ves a large fehlt! each Mearj the lines
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the fault" Santa Rosa is 20 mi. airline from Bodega Head PG&E of h mile from the western edge seems sort of feeble The proposal by the accident at Arco spread as far away as, Boise. Boise is 150 miles away. Idaho in 19 And this my' big protest:
Head; anyone who has watched the smoke comidg out of the stacks f of the Iuba Erector in Eneryville and the Pittsburg Paint companies i or the past decade knows that the prevailing wind in this area is mostly n Berkeley loses the containment. envelope there is a strong possib e company ever area would be showered with deadly radioactivity against which wy that the whole protection.
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