[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: “Balance of plant” proposal for Niagara Falls Storage Site (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps releases alternative 3 project for NFSS
Remedial plan to address ‘balance of plant’ at Pletcher Road site

By Terry Duffy
Lewiston-Porter Sentinel (NY)
October 9, 2020

The U.S. Amy Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, reports the public comment period is now underway on the plans to what is referred to as the alternative 3 “balance of plant” remediation at the Niagara Falls Storage Site in Lewiston.

Announced in March 2019, the balance of plant corrective measures at NFSS follows on the Corps’ earlier decision to completely remove the roughly 10-acre IWCS radioactive containment cell, process the contaminated materials and ship all the materials out of state for permanent disposal. The IWCS is located within the NFSS facility on Pletcher Road, roughly 1 mile east of the Lewiston-Porter School District’s Creek Road campus.

As reported in a Sentinel article Dec. 12, 2015, under the Army Corp’s exhaustive alternative 4 plan revealed at that time for the IWCS, all radioactive materials inside the would be excavated and disposed of off-site. Corps reps noted the IWCS, when first constructed in the late 1980s, was divided into subunits A, B and C.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/featured/2020/10/09/143639/army-corps-releases-alternative-3-project-for-nfss

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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