UNITED STAT!’S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
Pacific Supervisory Office
P. 0. Box 3650
Honolulu 11, Hawaii
April 21, 1958
Commander
Joint Task Force SEVEN
APO 437
San Francisco, Calif.
(Attn:
Major Frank Ritchie, RADSAFE)
Dear Sir:
In response to a telephone request from a Captain Matt of your
organization, may we inform you that the Weather Bureau has no
monitoring capabilities for radioactive fallout in the Hawaiian
- Islands.
We have at three stations in Hawaii; namely, Honolulu, Hilo and
Lihue, the "fly paper" type of collection which the Weather Bureau
performs for the AEC. The Weather Bureau, in this instance, merely
exposes the paper. All analyses and measurements are made by AEC
and, therefore, any data which you require from these "fly paper*
exposures would have to be obtained from the AEC, not the Weather
Bureau.
Very truly yours,
H. Dean Parry
Meteorologist Acting in Charge
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