| From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
| Date: | 20 Oct 2007 16:55:01 -0000 |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, NY |
Testing standards for landfill are faulted Residents group cites flaws in CWM plan By Aaron Besecker Buffalo News(NY) October 19, 2007LEWISTON - New state testing requirements for CWM Chemical Services fail to adequately investigate for plutonium, exclude areas that drain into local creeks and may allow the company to skirt other environmental standards, according to some members of a residents advisory group. ...Portions of the CWM site were used to dispose of radioactive waste from experiments that were part of the Manhattan Project. The landfill facility is also adjacent to a 191-acre federal storage facility for radioactive waste known as the Niagara Falls Storage Site. ...Tests of buildings that remain on site since the time the area was a part of the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, a federal weapons production facility. ... For the entire article, see http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/187725.html?imw=Y -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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