[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, BERYLLIUM, FORMER SITES: Luckey site, Luckey, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactive soil from Ohio heads to Wayne County landfill next week

by Keith Mathen
Detroit Free Press
June 22, 2018


Up to 124,000 tons of low-level radioactive soil and other materials from a contaminated former military supplier in Ohio will begin arriving at a Wayne County landfill next week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced.

The soil and materials are headed for Wayne Disposal Inc., U.S. Ecology's hazardous waste landfill off I-94 near Willow Run Airport in Van Buren Township. Once the soil disposal operation is fully underway, up to 11 tractor-trailers per day, each carrying about 15 tons of contaminated soil, are expected to head north on local freeways from the village south of Toledo to the Wayne County landfill, Army Corps officials said Thursday. There's no indication the shipments would be every day. A U.S. Ecology spokesman said the remediation project could take 8 to 10 years. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2018/06/22/radioactive-soil-ohio-wayne-county-landfill/725741002/

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