Hopefully not so much these days.
Those of us who worked in the Electronics industry in the 1980s did come into contact daily.
Those of us who worked in the Electronics industry in the 1980s did come into contact daily.
Separately, there are many orgs which track and map the TCE plumes in the groundwater and you can find that info as well through google
And then there's the military waste…
A lot of the radioactive soil was just sent to regular state landfills.
Then after they had started building multi family homes on top of the site, they found out the cleanup company was falsifying soil samples and the site was still highly radioactive.
I hope that situation is not typical of how Superfund sites are handled
AMD, Intel, Fairchild, IBM, HP, Nat Semi, Raytheon, Teledyne, Westinghouse, and LLNL all gifted the Bay Area with Superfund sites with most concentrated in Santa Clara county. Even stuff that doesn't rise to the level of a Superfund site can still be far too polluted to develop (e.g. Brisbane).