2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:56:23 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Lake Ontario Ordnance Works field-investigation plan,
 
A small step forward for former ordnance site
Company issues analysis plan

By Richard Baldwin
Buffalo News (NY)
November 24, 2012

LEWISTON - Decades-long efforts to clean up chemical and radioactive contamination at the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site have taken a small step forward with the issuance of a final plan for a field investigation to analyze some soil and water samples that may not already have been thoroughly tested or cleaned up.

The latest field-investigation plan, issued earlier this month, is intended to:

* Determine groundwater contamination in the northern portion of a relatively small area now known as the Niagara Falls Storage Site and around the southern portion of the Interim Waste Containment Structure on that site.

* Identify the source of increasing concentrations of uranium in groundwater at one specific location.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121124/ CITYANDREGION/121129566/1003

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