[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: NUMEC, Parks Township (IN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Numec cleanup to take three years

By SAM KUSIC
Indiana Gazette
April 27, 2009

The Army Corps of Engineers is finalizing plans to clean up a low-level 
radioactive waste dump in Parks Township, Armstrong County, and will 
make them public in the coming weeks, according to a corps official.

Project manager Bill Lenart said work on the $66 million project at the 
Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. dump site is to begin in August or 
September and will probably take three construction seasons to complete.

Under the project, a contractor will dig up roughly 40,000 cubic yards 
of contaminated dirt at the site and ship it to a disposal facility. 
According to the Corps, the company, which processed nuclear fuel for 
commercial and military uses, buried radioactive waste in 10 trenches at 
the site between 1961 and 1970.

The 44-acre site is along the banks of the Kiskiminetas River, just 
outside the village of Kiskimere.


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For the entire article, see
http://online.indianagazette.com/articles/2009/04/27/news/10014737.txt

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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
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