[CPEO-MEF] Plutonium in Ohio landfill?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Citizens group, EPA seem to be in a standoff

By PAUL M. KRAWZA, Copley News
Canton Repository (OH)
December 10, 2004

WASHINGTON ? Concerned Citizens of Lake Township has marshaled witness
testimony, the views of its own experts and a report from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's ombudsman in arguing that independent
testing is needed to prove a radioactive threat at the Industrial Excess Landfill.

Federal and state environmental officials are just as adamant that years
of ground-water sampling have failed to reveal any radiation at the
Superfund site, beyond normal, background levels resulting from global
nuclear fallout.

Rumors that the military disposed of radioactive materials at the
landfill have swirled for years. The old gravel pit never was licensed
to accept radioactive waste, but several people, including former
landfill owner Charles Kittinger, testified they saw military trucks
delivering stainless steel eggs filled with radioactive plutonium in the 1960s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=9&ID=196997&r=0

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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