[CPEO-BIF] Shallow Land Disposal Area, Parks Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test for nuke waste beyond Parks Township waste dump

By Mary Ann Thomas
ASPINWALL HERALD (PA)
September 27, 2010

The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to determine whether 
there is any hazardous waste lurking outside the area of a Parks 
Township waste dump slated for cleanup by the Army Corps of Engineers.

At the urging of Patty Ameno, an environmental activist from Leechburg, 
EPA is investigating whether illegal dumping took place in areas other 
than the disposal trenches at the former waste dump along Route 66.

Known as the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA), the 44-acre dump sits 
behind a razed plutonium processing facility, a sister site to the 
former nuclear fuel-processing plant in Apollo, owned by the Nuclear 
Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC) and its successors, the Atlantic 
Richfield Co. and Babcock & Wilcox (now BWX Technologies).

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/leadertimes/news/s_701469.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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