[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: NUMEC Wastes, Parks, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test Kiskimere well water
By Mary Ann Thomas
ASPINWALL HERALD (PA)
May 8, 2011



It was just a few decades ago that skydivers dropped in and  
ultralights buzzed the rural hillsides to cheering crowds for air  
shows at the Leechburg Airport in Parks Township.

An airplane hangar, faded to sky blue with rust-burnt edges, and an  
idle office building is about all that is left of Gib Querio's dream  
of a residential air park.

Financial and legal problems, coupled with the airport's location  
next to a nuclear dump and plutonium plant, sunk more than Querio's  
business plans.

He is among about 15 residents who have requested that the federal  
Environmental Protection Agency test their well water for  
contaminants that might have traveled from the nuclear operations in  
the village of Kiskimere in Parks.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/leadertimes/news/s_736031.html

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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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