[CPEO-MEF] Ashland FUSRAP site (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ashland clean

BY JESSICA GASPAR
The Tonawanda News (NY)
September 15, 2006


After years of contamination and waste, Town of Tonawanda officials met 
at a pristine Ashland site Thursday.

A Colorado blue spruce was planted to commemorate the cleanup of the 
Ashland site, which has been going on since 1998. The site was once used 
for storing uranium processing wastes, said Jim Karsten, former Utilized 
Sites Remedial Action Program manager for the corps.

The activity at the site was performed under the Manhattan Project 
during the 1940s.

The site has three affected areas, including parts of Rattlesnake Creek, 
Karsten said.

"All these areas are now cleaned up," Karsten said. "There is not stigma 
of radioactive material."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/thetonawandas/local_story_258101217.html

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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>
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