Group looking at numerous LOOW clean up options

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The entrance to the Niagara Falls Storage Site on Pletcher Road. It’s currently the location for highly active radioactive materials on the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site. Photo by James Neiss

January 23, 2012

Staff Reports Niagara Gazette The Niagara Gazette Mon Jan 23, 2012, 10:13 PM EST

LEWISTON — The Lake Ontario Ordnance Works Restoration Advisory Board is looking at which clean up options are valid and which are impossible or illegal among seven possibilities given by the Army Corps of Engineers concerning the future of the Niagara Falls Storage Site remediation.

Members of the RAB have long stood against the creation of a permanent storage facility at the NFSS, which is currently a temporary location for highly active radioactive materials on the LOOW site. But the group’s preferred solution — complete removal of all materials — may be just as impossible due to cost.

The board’s discussion, scheduled for 6:15 p.m. today in the Lewiston-Porter Alumni Room of the campus’s Community Resource Center on Creek Road, Lewiston, will clarify what’s possible, according to member Amy Witryol.

“Some of the options may be illegal, some may not be feasible,” she said. “We’re going to start to get to the bottom line of what things may impact whether or not we get a permanent facility site.”

Also scheduled for discussion will be a review of a letter sent to the group by the Corps pertaining to the submission of surveys completed on the www.loowrab.com website, which were turned over to the governing body in December.

The board will also discuss the petition creation process.

The meeting is open to the public.

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