Experts to check out Balloch radium works site

Jul 10 2009 by Tina Kemp, Lennox Herald (main ed)

UNIVERSITY experts have been drafted in to monitor the site of a former radium works in Balloch.

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency brought in the Stirling University team to examine the land which is now the site of a boatyard.

The radium works opened in 1915, 30 yards south of Lomond Bridge. It made radium for medical treatments and luminous paints, before being demolished 12 years later.

A spokeswoman for SEPA said: “We arranged for experts from Stirling University to undertake monitoring work at the boat yard in Balloch.

“Data from this work has now been received by SEPA and our experts are studying it at present.”