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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TOWN OF TONAWANDA: Army Corps restarts landfill study

By Daniel Pye
Tonawanda News (NY)
October 15, 2009

Starting next week, the Army Corps of Engineers will once again be 
conducting studies on the Town of Tonawanda Landfill.

Steve Buechi, the Army Corps' project manager for the town landfill, 
said the added tests are in response to a bevy of comments received by 
the Corps after the agency recommended no further action on the site in 
2007.

Elected officials spoke out against the proposed action, but Town of 
Tonawanda Supervisor Anthony Caruana said public outcry is what put the 
project back on the Corps' radar. City of Tonawanda Councilman Rick 
Davis, who worked with other local leaders to disseminate form letters 
for residents to mail in, agreed.

"Who are we but elected officials?" Davis said. "The residents are the 
ones who drive government to do what it's going to do."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/thetonawandas/local_story_288221731.html?keyword=topstory

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Lenny Siegel
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