[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES, FUDS: Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) RAB criticizes Corps

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Panel criticizes report of former ordnance site's risk

Contamination study is called 'meaningless'

By Aaron Besecker
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
November 9, 2009

A review of risks posed by contamination at a former federal weapons 
site in Lewiston and Porter has been called "meaningless" and incomplete 
by a volunteer panel of area residents with technical expertise in the 
issues.

The Army Corps of Engineers ignored evidence of radiological 
contamination when it characterized potential dangers at the former Lake 
Ontario Ordnance Works site, according to the LOOW Restoration Advisory 
Board.

Federal regulators considered only chemical contamination in their risk 
assessments, the results of which were the topic of a public meeting the 
corps hosted in Lewiston on Sept. 16.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/855079.html

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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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