[CPEO-MEF] Harshaw Chemical, Cleveland, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army wants former Harshaw plant workers
Corps of Engineers needs information

Michael Sangiacomo
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)
January 17, 2007

Remember how Uncle Charlie used to bore everyone at the dinner table 
with stories about the Harshaw Chemical Co. and processing uranium for 
the atomic bombs that ended World War II?

While the relatives might have tired of the stories, the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers is all ears. It wants to hear everything Uncle Charlie and 
anyone else can recall about working at the plant on 1000 Harvard Road 
along the Cuyahoga River. And not just people who worked there during 
World War II, but also those employed there through the late 1950s when 
the plant stopped working with radioactive materials.

The corps is examining the site to determine the amount of contamination 
that remains.

"We are looking for any details about their employment," said Bill 
Kowalewski, corps spokesman. "A guy who worked in the warehouse could 
tell us how he moved boxes of radioactive material from a train car to a 
processing building and where the material - and the boxes - went from 
there. Was waste material drummed up and buried or shipped off site? Did 
they burn or bury the containment boxes? All these things are important 
to us."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1169028171300620.xml&coll=2

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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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