From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 3 Sep 2012 13:46:07 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Hunt on for radium 'hot spots' in Staten Island's Great Kills Park, New York |
Hunt on for radium 'hot spots' in Staten Island's Great Kills Park By Tracey Porpora Staten Island Advance (NY) Seotember 1, 2012STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The National Park Service and Army Corps of Engineers will be taking a time-critical approach to surveying and remediating areas of Great Kills Park in Gateway National Recreation Area, where radium "hot spots" are detected. In two weeks, the Park Service expects to have the results of a three- day survey, conducted earlier this week by the Army Corps, for radiological contamination in sections of Great Kills Park. The next phase of the project promises to fast-track the work by allowing simultaneous surveys and remediation of an extensive section of the 225-acre former landfill site located within the park ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.silive.com/southshore/index.ssf/2012/09/ hunt_on_for_radium_hot_spots_i.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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