[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, BERYLLIUM: Brush Wellman plant in Wood County (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Postponed cleanup results in frustration
Luckey fears contaminated soil will affect water


By CHAUNCEY ALCORN
TOLEDO BLADE (OH)
May 1, 2008

LUCKEY - Federal officials aren't sure when they'll be able to begin 
cleaning up the toxic materials poisoning the soil and ground water at 
the former Brush Wellman plant in Wood County, but the cleanup isn't 
happening soon enough for the people who live nearby.

From 1949 to 1958, the 40-acre site in Troy Township just outside of 
the village of Luckey was a production facility for Brush Beryllium Co., 
which became Brush Wellman Engineered Materials. It moved to Elmore in 1958.

Some of the beryllium metal produced there was used to make components 
for nuclear weapons.

Years later it was determined the site was contaminated with the toxic 
materials produced there, some of it buried at the facility.

The beryllium, lead, and uranium the Army Corps of Engineers found in 
the ground was also found in the water that flows beneath the site.


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For the entire article, see
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/NEWS06/805010359

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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>
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