2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

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, 2012

STATEN 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, see
http://www.silive.com/southshore/index.ssf/2012/09/ hunt_on_for_radium_hot_spots_i.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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