Paducah project completed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Cleanup at Gaseous Diffusion Plant finished five months early

WKYT Kentucky Television (Associated Press)
August 19, 2004

PADUCAH, Ky. -- An $8 million cleanup of a ditch that runs from the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant has been completed, five months ahead of
schedule and within budget, according to the Department of Energy.

More than 23,000 tons of soil were removed from a half-mile stretch of
the North-South Diversion Ditch, which runs two miles from inside the
plant fence to the north section of federal land at Little Bayou Creek.
The job began last September and was completed Tuesday.

For decades, the ditch was a catchall for contaminated runoff and a
place that some former workers say was a regular dump site for barrels
of toxic, radioactive waste at the plant.

Excavation had been delayed for more than two years because of disputes
over what to do with the contaminated soil and the new
accelerated-cleanup plan proposed by DOE. The problems were resolved a
year ago when DOE and state and federal environmental regulators signed
the agreement. The ditch work is the first project completed under the
new plan, which has been challenged in court by some plant neighbors.

"This is a triumph of cooperation with our regulators," said Bill
Murphie, DOE Paducah project manager.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2193730

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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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