[CPEO-MEF] National Lead (NY) - uranium-tainted soil shipments

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shipments of tainted soil restart
Contaminated material being removed from former National Lead site

By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST
Albany Times-Union (NY)
May 30, 2007

COLONIE -- The final trainload of uranium-tainted soil is expected to 
leave the former National Lead site by summer's end, made possible by an 
unexpected infusion of federal money.

In the final push of a two-decade clean-up at the Central Avenue plant, 
secure train cars started hauling away the remaining 8,000 cubic yards 
of tainted soil last week, said James Moore, project manager for the 
Army Corps of Engineers.

"We'll have the entire pile moved by the end of August. Once that's 
done, we'll have all the contaminated material off-site," he said.

The news comes just shy of a year after Army Corps officials, faced with 
a greater volume of contaminated soil than expected, prepared the public 
for the likelihood that the site would close at year's end until more 
money became available to ship it away.

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For the entire article, see
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=593495&category=ALBANY&BCCode=&newsdate=5/30/2007

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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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