[CPEO-BIF] Lewiston Road radiation, Niagara Falls, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CONTROVERSY STILL SWIRLS OVER LEWISTON ROAD MESS
What's real threat from radioactive slag?

By Tony Farina
Niagara Falls Reporter
June 26, 2012

The Lewiston Road reconstruction project started in August of 2009,  
and to date $10.l million of combined federal, state, and city money  
has been expended and the work, which was to have been completed in  
two years, is a long way from completion and mired in controversy  
over possible dangerous radioactive levels.



Residents from Bath Ave. to the north city line are literally being  
held hostage by the unfinished work with no end in sight. And they  
must ponder the possible health dangers caused by the excavation  
which is seen by some experts as significant.



The work stopped last fall when the contractor, David Pfeiffer, whose  
company Man Oâ Trees, Inc., has already been paid $7.1 million or  
84% of the total price, wanted to up the ante on the job to pay for  
what he described as the removal of six times more radioactive slag  
under the road than was originally estimated.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/Stories/2012/June26/FarinaCover.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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