[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Middlesex, N.J. "Upset Over Delays in Nuclear Cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Jersey Town Upset Over Delays in Nuclear Cleanup
Middlesex, N.J., Grows Frustrated as Possible Third Cleanup of  
Nuclear Dump Site Drags on For a Decade


By John R. Emshwiller and Jeremy Singer-Vine
Wall Street Journal
October 31, 2013

Ronald Dobies, mayor of Middlesex, N.J., is getting more than a  
little frustrated with the pace of the federal government's efforts  
to clean up radioactive residue from the country's old nuclear- 
weapons program - at least when it comes to his community of 14,000.

"We are just a little town and get sort of forgotten," said Mr.  
Dobies in an interview. "I am frustrated as all hell on this."

A Wall Street Journal feature earlier this week looked at the  
contamination left behind at scores of sites in more than three dozen  
states where factories and other facilities churned out products or  
research on nuclear projects during World War II and the Cold War.  
One site examined was a onetime landfill in Middlesex that the town  
wants to turn into a recreation area. However, decades ago the  
federal government dumped radioactive waste at the landfill. The site  
has already undergone two cleanups - one in the 1960s and one  
starting in the late 1970s -only to have more contamination  
discovered near a residential street in 2001.

The Army Corps of Engineers is now looking at putting the Middlesex  
site back into a federal radioactive cleanup program, known as  
Fusrap. One of the previous Middlesex cleanups had been done through  
that program.

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For the entire article, see
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/ 
SB10001424052702303843104579169801581986532

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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