Pennsylvania Authority Seeks Landfill For Nuclear-Contaminated Ash

Date: March 16, 2006

Source: News Room

The Kiski Valley (Pa.) Water Pollution Control Authority is seeking bidders to accept ash contaminated by water from former nuclear processing plants in Apollo and Parks. The authority is seeking bids to accept 12,000 cubic meters of the ash from its former wastewater treatment lagoon. The state has declared the ash to be municipal waste, not hazardous waste, and has approved the plan to take the material to a MSW landfill. The authority scrapped a similar plan last year after residents protested the idea of uranium-contaminated waste going to the Greenridge Landfill in Westmoreland County.

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