[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Clean-up of Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste at DuPont site along Delaware River continues in N.J."

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean-up of Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste at DuPont site along Delaware River continues in N.J.

By Andrew Lewis 
Delaware Currents
August 26, 2025

Following the discovery of more contaminated soil last year, the cleanup of Manhattan Project-era radiological waste at the former DuPont Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., will continue until 2038, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said at a recent public presentation in nearby Salem County. 

Since the corps began excavation work in 2014, it has removed 92,660 cubic yards — about 3,250 garbage trucks’ worth — of material, much of it contaminated with uranium, the key component in the development of an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project’s core mission.

Corps representatives said that some 53,900 more cubic yards of earth are slated to be removed by 2032, followed by up to five years of groundwater monitoring.

…

For the entire article, see
https://delawarecurrents.org/2025/08/26/dupont-chambers-works-cleanup/

—

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