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US Dept of Energy Surveys Show Radioactive Areas Under Portage Rd; Should This Be Evaluated Before Repaving? 2 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER JULY 28 - AUG 3, 2016 FREE JULY 28 - AUG 3, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 30 FREE US Dept of Energy Surveys show Radioactive Areas under Portage Rd; Should this be evaluated before repaving? 2 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER JULY 28 - AUG 3, 2016 Portage Road Repaving Presents Danger of Radioactive Contamination allurgical companies were tasked by the US Lou Ricciuti and Government to develop and create radioac- Frank Parlato tive materials necessary for the world’s first reactors and atomic weapons. iagara Falls - A section of The radioactive materials handled by Portage Road - between Ferry these local industrial complexes ranged and Niagara - is scheduled for from uranium to plutonium and nearly ev- N ery known isotope of the time. In those ear- road work this summer and is expected to start any day. ly atomic energy days safeguards were not The Portage Road work – which is list- strictly enforced, or were ignored altogether. ed as part of Mayor Paul Dyster’s “in-house The processing and refining of radio- street paving & other roadway re-construction active chemicals and metals produced large costs” in his proposed 2016 capital spending quantities of wastes as Niagara Falls became plan is budgeted for $650,000. the free world’s largest production center for It may cost more than that depending on radioactive uranium metal-from-ore. the type of work the city winds up doing on That also made Niagara Falls the free the road and what they unearth. world’s largest producer of nuclear wastes. According to the US Department of En- Because the quantities of usable radioac- ergy’s landmark 1979 EG&G Aerial Radio- tive isotopes being refined from the ore were logical Survey and subsequent Oak Ridge in trace quantities, the refining process neces- Laboratories Ground Level Survey, what is sitated leaving significant amounts of the re- likely buried under Portage Road is a fairly maining isotopes in the massive tonnages of large amount of radioactive material. waste associated with this production. In fact, Portage is the most radioactive These wastes – which were originally A copy of one of the maps from the US Dept of Energy’s 1979 survey. The road per-mile in the city, based on the number called by those tasked with quietly disposing map shows that Portage Road has 13 hot spots of concentrated radioac- of “hot spots” that registered unnatural levels of it as “slag” – contain significant radioactive tivity that was detected from aerial surveillance. of radioactivity on this road when the federal materials from a range of isotopes. Incredibly, it was considered practical government conducted is surveys. In Niagara Falls it is largely unknown, levels of radioactivity could be detected from to dispose of this waste under various roads, The surveys were initiated by concerns unheeded and ignored. Still, scores of roads the sky on Portage Road and elsewhere in this parking lots and driveways in Niagara Falls stemming from the Love Canal environmen- in Niagara Falls have radioactive material city. and surrounding areas. tal disaster and were meant as an inquiry into buried underneath them decades ago. Although the surveys are 36 years old, At the time, people were led to believe the past history of the industrial activities of This came to light a few years ago when absent removal if the slag, the surveys are not that once buried under pavement the radioac- Niagara. Lewiston Road was reconstructed and nucle- outdated. tivity in the so-called slag would not penetrate The 1979 surveys revealed about 100 hot ar “slag” buried there and its partial removal Slag buried under the roads by and large the surface, or be less of a hazard. spots in the city. Thirteen alone are on Portage increased the costs of the work by millions of remain intact and are often part of the road Today’s science proves this to be a fal- Road. dollars. beds. lacy. Buried under Portage Road is what is Perhaps more significant than cost is the There is no known record of the slag be- This same method of disposal was un- likely a portion of the derivative radioactive human toll. Scientists have learned that radio- ing removed. fortunately utilized in other locations around waste product from Niagara’s pioneer role at active materials buried under roadways are The radioactive materials are still as po- the nation were nuclear wastes were disposed the beginning of the atomic age, circa 1942, not completely insulated or made “safe” by tent today as they were when they were bur- of, often to the knowing devastation of those and onward. pavement over them. This was amply illus- ied under Portage and other roads in this city. communities. At that time the city chemical and met- trated in the 1979 US Dept. of Energy radi- The isotopes found in the radioactive wastes ation surveys where unnatural amounts and in Niagara Falls have half-lives ranging from NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER “The Truth is Always Fair” CHAIRMAN & EDITOR IN CHIEF Frank Parlato Managing Editor Senior Editor Dr. Chitra Selvaraj Tony Farina phone: (716) 284-5595 PO Box 3083, Niagara Falls, NY 14304 email: [email protected] www.niagarafallsreporter.com The US Dept of Energy conducted surveys in 1979 to determine the amount of radioactive sites there were in Niagara Falls. They found more . than 100. 3 NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER JULY 28 - AUG 3, 2016 US Surveys Show high concentration of radioactive material likely under the road 1600 years to 4.5 billion years, depending on the US Dept. of Energy surveys, part of the the particular isotope. citywide problem of under-road burials of As anyone who has recently driven it some of the oldest, most widespread, and un- knows, Portage Road is uneven and coarse addressed nuclear waste in the country. and badly deteriorated. Signs are posted on Failure to test the material before com- the road warning motorist that they will en- mencing construction, if it is radioactive, counter “rough road” ahead. could result in the winds and rain scatter- Perhaps the road will be much rougher ing nuclear waste, spreading it into people’s than anticipated. homes, their gardens, their children’s hair and The Niagara Falls Reporter urges the ground water. All of which constitutes a dan- City of Niagara Falls to conduct an immedi- ger of inhalation or ingestion. ate, transparent and public analysis of Portage Radioactive contamination is invisible to Road prior to construction. the eye and consequently many people ignore A disturbance of dangerous radioactive it. No one feels the health hazards immediate- materials buried beneath the road for perhaps ly. now more than 65 years could create a health If there is nuclear waste there and it What lies under Portage Road? A test would find out conclusively. hazard. spreads out from under Portage Road through The proper protocol would be to do bore- roadwork construction, its manifestation into holes and have the materials tested in a qual- diseases such as suppression of the immune ified laboratory (split-sampled with public system and cancerous tumors, may takes oversight) to discover their origin and what, if years or decades to appear. any radioisotope or isotopes are present. Former EPA official, Dr. Jeanette Sher- Then, if it is discovered to be radioactive, man, M.D. specializes in internal medicine which previous surveys indicate, the creation and toxicology, with an emphasis on chemi- of an enforceable and replicable plan to safe- cals and nuclear radiation that cause illness, ly dispose of these materials – beyond the including cancer. Regarding Niagara Falls, boundaries of Niagara Falls to a licensed out- she called it a wide-scale nuclear dump site of-state landfill, needs to be implemented. from the mid-20th century. New York State does not license the Dr. Sherman said, “The situation in Ni- waste that is buried under our roads even in agara Falls and Niagara County is already remote licensed landfills. manifest through statistical (high) morbidity As a takeaway please consider: What is and mortality rates.” buried under Portage Road is, according to If that is true, let’s not add to it now. 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Critics, including this newspaper, have said that the spending of $44 million of taxpayer money on a 22,000 square train station for a city that lacks the demand for such a facility suggests Are crowded train stations a thing that the train station will be mostly empty all of the past or of the future? the time. The modest size of the current train station - which costs taxpayers noth- Annual ridership at the current Niagara ing - is more than ample to accommodate the 87 train passengers who on Falls train station was 31,831 in 2015, accord- average come here daily. ing to Amtrak. That is an average of 87 pas- sengers per day (about 43 coming and going).
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