[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, COMMUNITIES: Debate over uranium at Niagara Falls Storage Site (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

LOOW contamination findings debated Wednesday

By Timothy Chipp 
Niagara Gazette (NY)
December 4, 2013

Restoration Advisory Board Technical Chair Ann Roberts is thoroughly convinced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is contradicting itself about uranium contamination at a particularly troubling location in Lewiston.

She says the interim waste containment structure on the grounds of the Niagara Falls Storage Site in the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works is, indeed, leaking. And despite claims to the contrary by the site's caretakers, she said the most recently released data can prove it.

"What they're reporting is not what they've found," Roberts said during a RAB meeting Wednesday.

Roberts' disagreement stems from a report given by the Corps to the LOOW Community Action Council two weeks ago that attempted to disprove any concerns over leakage coming from its IWCS structure. Instead, the report claims, high levels of uranium in the soil surrounding the site stem from residual and historical contamination from before the structure was built between 1982 and 1986.

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For the entire artticle, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/x1636699196/LOOW-findings-debated

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Lenny Siegel
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