[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Shallow Land Disposal Area, Parks, PA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Samples from Parks nuclear dump site meet federal standards

By Mary Ann Thomas
Valley News Dispatch (PA)
December 9, 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency didn‘t find chemical or  
radiological contamination above federal standards in 31 samples of  
ground and surface water and sediment near the nuclear dump along  
Route 66 in Parks.

The EPA, however, is unable to conclude that area residents are not  
being exposed to contaminants from the dump, formally known as the  
Shallow Land Disposal Area, and a former plutonium plant in the  
Kiskimere section of Parks.

The information is contained in a Nov. 30 EPA report, “Kiskimere  
Groundwater Well Investigation.”

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For the entire article, see
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/ 
yourallekiskivalleymore/3088927-87/epa-dump-site

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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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