[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US planning clean-up of WWII era bomb-making site in Niagara County

By Nancy Fischer
Buffalo News (NY)
January 10, 2017


PORTER - More than 70 years after World War II-era bombs were manufactured at a site in Niagara County, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has discovered soil there still contaminated by TNT and lead.

It is proposing to spend $846,045 to clean up a four-acre site in the Town of Porter.

The Army Corps of Engineers will host a public meeting Wednesday, Jan. 11 in Lewiston to discuss its plan to excavate contaminated soil and debris from the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, where the Army manufactured TNT for about 9 months before the bomb-making facility was decommissioned in 1943.

The Army Corps has concluded there is no imminent threat to human health or the environment, but it cautions there are potential unacceptable health risks if people have direct contact with the soil.

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For the entire article, see
http://buffalonews.com/2017/01/07/contaminated-waste-considered/

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Lenny Siegel
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