[CPEO-MEF] Shpack Landfill (MA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This work is part of the US Army Corps of Engineers Formerly 
Utilized Site Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). - LS]

Shpack cleanup to resume: Work set to continue again in summer 2007

By Jessica Hackett
Norton Mirror (MA)
November 17, 2006

The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency 
informed residents and officials of Norton and Attleboro Tuesday night 
cleanup of radiological waste at the Shpack Landfill will resume late 
next spring or early next summer.

Melissa Taylor, project engineer for the EPA, also said they were in the 
middle of negotiations with 11 of the 17 parties who they believe are 
responsible for the non-radiological part of the contamination.

...

Tim Beauchemin, a project manager for the Army Corps, explained the work 
at the Shpack Landfill had to be suspended because the amount of 
radiological contamination was almost three times as much as they had 
first estimated, which means more money has to be budgeted to complete 
the project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/norton/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=619031
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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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