[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Tonawanda Landfill (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

TONAWANDA LANDFILL: DEC releases sump pump test results

By Dave Hill
The Tonawanda News (NY)
August 19, 2008

Contaminants from the Town of Tonawanda landfill are not entering nearby 
city residents’ homes via their sump pumps, according to the state 
Department of Environmental Conservation.

At the urging of City of Tonawanda officials, the DEC conducted sump 
pump tests at a dozen homes on Hackett Drive and Wadsworth Court in 
March to determine whether hazardous materials buried in the landfill 
had passed through the groundwater and into the homes, potentially 
putting people in contact with the waste.

The town is in the process of trying to cap the landfill, which is 
located in the northwestern corner of the town and borders a residential 
neighborhood in the city.

In 1991, the U.S. Department of Energy identified material in the 
landfill that contained enhanced levels of uranium-238 similar to the 
product and by-product created by the former Linde Air Products facility 
as part of its work on the federal government’s Manhattan Project to 
develop the first nuclear weapon in the 1940s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/local/local_story_231231859.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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