September 26, 2010 - The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to determine whether there is any hazardous waste lurking outside the area of a Parks Township waste dump slated for cleanup by the Army Corps of Engineers.
At the urging of Patty Ameno, an environmental activist from Leechburg, EPA is investigating whether illegal dumping took place in areas other than the disposal trenches at the former waste dump along Route 66.
Known as the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA), the 44-acre dump sits behind a razed plutonium processing facility, a sister site to the former nuclear fuel-processing plant in Apollo, owned by the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC) and its successors, the Atlantic Richfield Co. and Babcock & Wilcox (now BWX Technologies).
NUMEC and ARCO disposed of radiological and chemical waste from the Apollo plant into 10 trenches in Parks from 1960 to the early 1970s.
The EPA is reviewing site-related documents and photos to decide whether Ameno's concerns are warranted.
"We are reviewing and determining if further EPA action is necessary," said Roy Seneca, EPA spokesman for Region III in Philadelphia.
At least several incidents of off-site contamination have been documented and cleaned up through the years, but Ameno and a former NUMEC engineer believe there could be more.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Deal to Clean Up LA-area Nuclear Accident Site
September 4, 2010 - More than five decades after a partial nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, state and federal officials Friday announced agreements to remove all contamination and return the atomic energy and rocket engine test site to its natural state.
Residents who have fought for years for cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory heralded the agreements signed by the Department of Energy, NASA and state officials. The agreements, which commit to a 2017 cleanup date, must still go through a public review process before they are finalized.
"It's more than we'd hoped for a long time," said Marie Mason, head of a homeowner's association whose four members have all been sick with leukemia, breast cancer or serious thyroid conditions. "We are thrilled."
During the Cold War, workers at the site, then-operated by Rocketdyne, tested more than 30,000 rockets and experimented with nuclear reactors on the hilltop where now-hollow gray buildings sit like tombstones.
By the time the lab was shuttered, testing and several nuclear accidents since 1959 left a toxic stew of radioactive and chemical contamination that many believed trickled into the communities below, causing breast cancer, thyroid conditions and a rare eye cancer among infants.
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Residents who have fought for years for cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory heralded the agreements signed by the Department of Energy, NASA and state officials. The agreements, which commit to a 2017 cleanup date, must still go through a public review process before they are finalized.
"It's more than we'd hoped for a long time," said Marie Mason, head of a homeowner's association whose four members have all been sick with leukemia, breast cancer or serious thyroid conditions. "We are thrilled."
During the Cold War, workers at the site, then-operated by Rocketdyne, tested more than 30,000 rockets and experimented with nuclear reactors on the hilltop where now-hollow gray buildings sit like tombstones.
By the time the lab was shuttered, testing and several nuclear accidents since 1959 left a toxic stew of radioactive and chemical contamination that many believed trickled into the communities below, causing breast cancer, thyroid conditions and a rare eye cancer among infants.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Meeting Held on Former NY Weapons Site
September 18, 2009- About 60 people gathered in the Lewiston Senior Center on Wednesday night for a public meeting about the ongoing investigation of environmental contamination on former federal weapons sites in Lewiston and Porter.
The 7,500-acre site was purchased by the federal government in the early 1940s to construct an explosives plant manufacturing trinitrotoluene, or TNT. It had other uses once the TNT plant closed nine months after it opened. The storage site, a 191-acre area, includes a 10-acre cell that holds radiological waste.
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The 7,500-acre site was purchased by the federal government in the early 1940s to construct an explosives plant manufacturing trinitrotoluene, or TNT. It had other uses once the TNT plant closed nine months after it opened. The storage site, a 191-acre area, includes a 10-acre cell that holds radiological waste.
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