RE: Oldest Atomic Waste Dump

["Fleming, Kenneth" <knflemin@bechtel.com>]

Remedial activities are currently progressing in the St. Louis area under
the scope of FUSRAP.  The scope includes radiological wastes generated
during the days of the Manhattan Engineering District.  Sites exist in the
Buffalo; Maywood, Wayne, and Middlesex, NJ; St. Louis areas; and several
locations in Connecticut and Ohio.  Pull up the URL and review.

http://www.fusrap.doe.gov/


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	SSEKIRK@aol.com [SMTP:SSEKIRK@aol.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 29, 1998 3:45 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Oldest Atomic Waste Dump
> 
> Radsafers,
> 
> This appears to me my week to get strange phone calls from people.  I
> received
> a call from a women who was recently told she had radioactive materials
> (some
> sort of metal slag by product) around her home that came from a local
> steel
> plant in Byesville, Ohio.  Apparently the previous owner picked up slag at
> the
> steel plant for free to use as fill.   The women was told by a local
> goverment
> official that the steel plant got the material originally from
> Mallinckrodt
> waste dump in St. Louis.
> 
> The only thing I could find on the St. Louis dump was a web site at 
> http://www.moenviron.org/radwaste.htm
> 
> The woman wanted to know why waste from St. Louis would be shipped to a
> steel
> plant in Ohio and then end up at her home.  Do any radsafers know anything
> about the dump and their past practices to send materials to Ohio?  
> 
> Thanks for your help, 
> 
> S. Kirk
> 
> Please reply directly to me at SSEKIRK@aol.com