[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Harshaw Chemical and the Cleveland (OH) Towpath Trail

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactive industrial site stands in way of completing Cleveland's 
Towpath Trail

By Michael Scott
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)
January 26, 2010

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Uranium-235 has a radioactive half-life of roughly 
700 million years.

Tim Donovan is afraid it might take that long to find a way to get the 
Towpath Trail built through Cleveland.

But Donovan, the director of the Ohio Canal Corridor, is also now more 
desperate than ever to find a way across 55 acres along the Cuyahoga 
River to build one of the final legs of the long-anticipated hiking and 
biking trail.

There's only one thing standing in his way -- radioactive soil.

Worse, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a lengthy report Jan. 20 
that the site will not host the Towpath Trail anytime soon.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/01/radioactive_industrial_site_st.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
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