[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Seaway Landfill, Tonawanda, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TOWN OF TONAWANDA: Nuclear material to remain in Seaway landfill

By Daniel Pye
The Tonawanda News (NY)
November 12, 2009

TOWN OF TONAWANDA - The Army Corps of Engineers will be digging up some 
of the radioactive material around the Seaway landfill, but most of the 
contaminated area will be left how it is.

Maj. Gen. John Peabody, the Corps' Great Lakes and Ohio River division 
commander, approved the decision to move ahead with plans to extract 
radioactive material that had leaked off the River Road landfill site. 
The cleanup will stop there, leaving the remaining contamination still 
contained within the landfill to be capped under soil, fabric and 
geomembranes for the next 1,000 years.

Town Supervisor Anthony Caruana, City of Tonawanda Mayor Ron Pilozzi and 
plenty of other elected officials think that's the wrong move. Caruana 
wrote in his comments to the Corps that the best way to remedy the 
problem is "removal, not containment." He acknowledged that containment 
at $30 million is substantially cheaper than the $113 million full 
removal option, but argued that the long-term cost of monitoring, health 
concerns and further cleanup operations if more radioactive material 
leaks out far outweigh the cost up front. His opinion hadn't changed 
Thursday upon hearing that the containment option had been chosen over 
local objections.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/local/local_story_316233828.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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