2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:45:13 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY)
 
ARMY CORPS: LOOW no threat

by DAN MINER
Niagara Gazette (NY)
December 15, 2007


The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced there are “no imminent 
hazards to safety or health from radiological or chemical exposure,” at 
the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in Lewiston and Porter.

That statement, which came in the form of an Army Corps new release 
Friday, effectively wraps up the latest round of testing at the 191-acre 
property, which was once a TNT manufacturing plant for nation’s armed 
forces during and after World War II.

The site was also used for other weapons production and still houses 
radiological wastes created during the Manhattan Project. Numerous 
cleanups of the area have been attempted over the past several decades 
by federal agencies and departments.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_349233323.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>
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