From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:12:40 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Wayne County [MI] picked for Manhattan Project low-level radioactive waste" |
Evans outraged as Wayne County picked for Manhattan Project low-level radioactive waste By Carol Thompson Detroit News (MI) Augusts 19, 2024 A Wayne County hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility will accept low-level radioactive soil and concrete from a Manhattan Project cleanup site in western New York, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday, a development that drew opposition from Wayne County government's leader. Wayne Disposal Inc. in Van Buren Township is the closest licensed disposal facility to the Niagara Falls Storage Site that is capable of taking the material, said Brent LaSpada, site project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District. "If you're going to ship material and do it (with) the safest route possible, do it in the most concise manner. Western New York to Michigan just makes sense for this material," he said. … For the entire article, see https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/08/19/michigan-disposal-manhattan-project-low-level-radioactive-waste-outrage-transparency/74831388007/ — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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