The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District held a public meeting Tuesday in New York state about planned cleanup of the Niagara Falls Storage Site.
The site, to be cleaned up under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), includes a 10-acre Interim Waste Containment Structure, which holds radiologically contaminated debris, the Corps said in an Oct. 4 press release.
A video of the public meeting held Tuesday evening at the Lewiston Senior Center – 4361 Lower River Road, Youngstown, N.Y., will soon be available here.
In August, a $40-million contract for remedial cleanup and site services was issued to Enviro-Fix Solutions. The contractor is a joint venture, partly owned by Atlanta-based Perma-Fix.
The containment structure holds radioactive residues and contaminated rubble from the demolition of buildings, and contaminated soil from around the Niagara Falls Storage Site.
Starting around 1944, the site was used by the Manhattan Engineer District for residue and waste storage stemming from uranium ore processing, according to the Corps. The Department of Energy started cleanup in 1982, building an earthen containment cell that was completed in 1986.
The final cleanup is expected to happen in three phases, running through 2038. The first phase is underway with cleanup of soils, groundwater, roadbeds and old concrete foundations.
