[CPEO-MEF] National Lead, Colonie, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Funding shortfall alters soil cleanup
Army Corps of Engineers expects radioactive dirt excavated at former 
National Lead plant will have to remain on site until more money is found

By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST
Albany Times-Union
June 15, 2006

COLONIE -- The discovery this spring of more radioactive soil beneath a 
defunct Central Avenue munitions plant has created a funding gap that 
will force federal officials to keep the soil on site until money 
becomes available to ship it away.

The result is that a plan neighbors once fought, long-term storage of 
contaminated soil on site, likely will become reality at least until 
officials come up with more money.

	
The Army Corps of Engineers, the agency leading the cleanup of the 
former National Lead Industries plant, plans to meet with state 
environmental officials and other stakeholders Monday to brief them on a 
new plan, said James Moore, the project manager.

In part because neighbors opposed long-term storage of the 
uranium-contaminated soil on the 11.2-acre site just west of the Albany 
city line, the Army Corps amended the plan it had inherited from the 
Department of Energy.

...

For the entire article, see
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=491722&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=&newsdate=6/15/2006
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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