[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Shpack Landfill (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Army Corps of Engineers continues cleanup at contaminated Shpack  
industrial site in Norton

By Marc Larocque
Taunton Daily Gazette (MA)
March 2, 2012

Norton - The Army Corps of Engineers have finished their job  
excavating the former Shpack landfill to remove waste that polluted  
the soil there, but there is still some work to be done to remove  
chemical contamination from the site, according to the Environmental  
Protection Agency.

Through October 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers excavated 57,687  
cubic yards of contaminated waste from the Shpack site and shipped  
away 50,555 cubic yards of radiologically impacted waste. The Corps  
first became involved in 2002, when legislation was passed directing  
it to clean up the radioactive wastes on the site, which was a  
landfill that accepted industrial and domestic waste from 1946 to 1965.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/dighton/news/x1785606864/The-Army-Corps-of- 
Engineers-continues-cleanup-at-contaminated-Shpack-industrial-site-in- 
Norton#axzz1oGKvv3bU

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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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