Dingell questions Army Corps over radioactive waste site
WASHINGTON — A Michigan congresswoman is asking questions about an Army Corps of Engineers plan to potentially ship tens of thousands of cubic yards of low-level radioactive soil and other waste to a site near Belleville and what is being done to ensure that the project is safe.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, whose district includes the site that could take the waste, wrote a letter today to Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the Corps’ commanding general and chief of engineers, saying “serious concerns” have been raised by local officials about the proposal.
“We also have a responsibility to keep the public fully informed throughout the remediation process,” Dingell said in her letter. “Every American deserves peace of mind in knowing their future health and safely is not in jeopardy, nor the environment, as we work to clean up contaminated sites of the past.”
As the Free Press reported last week, the landfill off I-94 in Van Buren Township, operated by a company called U.S. Ecology, has been identified to receive low-level radioactive waste as part of a cleanup of a closed military supplier in Luckey, Ohio, that produced beryllium, a toxic metal, in the 1940s and ‘50s.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2017/04/06/dingell-army-corps-radioactive-waste/100141310/
