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"Potential radioactive contamination" at Uniontown Landfill
Lake Township citizens want more testing at IEL after latest results
BY Kelli Young
The Canton Repository
LAKE TWP. - Sick of the federal government’s assessment on the Industrial Excess Landfill, a citizens group said it wanted to give community members a second opinion.
The group’s diagnosis — explained by two scientists Tuesday night — wasn’t good.
Mark Baskaran, associate professor of geology at Wayne State University, said he found evidence of varying levels of radioactive materials at the Uniontown landfill. He said low levels of plutonium were found in the groundwater that could imply that a larger amount of the radioactive material is buried nearby. ... Read more.
BY Kelli Young
The Canton Repository
LAKE TWP. - Sick of the federal government’s assessment on the Industrial Excess Landfill, a citizens group said it wanted to give community members a second opinion.
The group’s diagnosis — explained by two scientists Tuesday night — wasn’t good.
Mark Baskaran, associate professor of geology at Wayne State University, said he found evidence of varying levels of radioactive materials at the Uniontown landfill. He said low levels of plutonium were found in the groundwater that could imply that a larger amount of the radioactive material is buried nearby. ... Read more.
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