[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Possible radioactive leakage from the Niagara Falls Storage Site (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New data from Army Corps contradicts earlier assertions about LOOW site

By Timothy Chipp 
Niagara Gazette (NY)
December 4, 2013

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathered with the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works Community Action Council last month, the message delivered concerning any possible radioactive leakage from the Niagara Falls Storage Site’s interim waste containment structure sounded good for the community.

A representative for the federal government’s department responsible for maintaining the temporary, 10-acre storage facility currently holding materials used in the Manhattan Project delivered a presentation suggesting those materials are not leaking into the ground around the site. The Corps said it was residual.

The other group fighting to clean up the site, the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works Restoration Advisory Board, is questioning the most recent report from the Army Corps. RAB officials say their group’s own technical advisor chairwoman, Ann Roberts, is prepared to announce that the latest NFSS news isn’t as rosy as proposed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/x1566988236/New-data-from-Army-Corps-contradicts-earlier-assertions-about-LOOW-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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