[CPEO-MEF] Tonawanda (NY) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CITY OF TONAWANDA: Searching for a cure

By Dan Miner
The Tonawanda News (NY)
February 26, 2007

They began as Riverview Residents for Kids. They've become Clean Up 
Riverview's Environment, or CURE.

And now, the group of City of Tonawanda residents who want the federal 
government to remove radioactive materials in the Town of Tonawanda 
landfill say they're gaining momentum.

"We're meeting in homes, in private residences," said Joyce Hogenkamp, a 
Tonawanda City School Board member and one of the group's informal 
co-chairpersons. "Every time we meet it just keeps getting bigger."
CURE, which has an estimated 50 members, swelled in membership after an 
unruly mid-February meeting which served as an illustration of the 
disconnect between parties trying to test and cap the landfill - 
including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation and Town of Tonawanda officials - and 
disgruntled City of Tonawanda residents.

The group has a range of goals, including obtaining federal help for the 
removal of radioactive materials possibly left at the landfill from the 
nation's early atomic energy program and testing Riverview Elementary 
School for radioactive contamination. The school sits adjacent to the 
landfill.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/thetonawandas/local_story_057103958.html?keyword=topstory

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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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