[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts Bay "foul area"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hot water: Could the new LNG pipeline stir up old radioactive waste?


By Barbara Taormina/GateHouse News Service
North Shore Sunday (MA)
July 29, 3007

Beverly -

Polly Bradley leans back in her favorite stuffed armchair in the living 
room of her Nahant home, shakes her head and admits the fight with 
Excelerate Energy is pretty much over. The hearings have ended, the 
permits have been issued and the company has started construction of a 
new liquefied natural gas terminal about 13 miles off the coast of 
Gloucester.

...

During the '40s and '50s, radioactive waste from different sources, 
including a small company in Beverly that processed uranium for the 
first atomic bombs, was dumped in Massachusetts Bay. No one seems to 
know exactly what or how much radioactive junk was tossed overboard, but 
some suggest it could be tens of thousands of barrels and concrete 
containers. And it’s down there on the ocean floor in the company of 
lots of other containers of industrial chemicals and waste that were 
dropped off at the Massachusetts Bay Industrial Waste Site, which has 
affectionately come to be known as the "foul area."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.townonline.com/northshoresunday/homepage/x1427484974

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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
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