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Cleanup of lead-tainted soil begins at former gun
Josey1
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Cleanup of lead-tainted soil begins at former gun factory
7/26/2002
ITHACA (AP) - Turbo-vacuums will suck up 4,500 tons of lead-contaminated soil in a $2 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency project.
The five-month cleanup began this week as workers sprayed water on land near the former Ithaca Gun Co. site, about 50 miles southwest of Syracuse.
The spraying helped keep lead dust out of the air as truck-mounted vacuums began gathering the soil, which will be covered and sealed in metal containers before being trucked to a hazardous-waste landfill, said Jack Harmon, the EPA's on-site coordinator.
Tests in past years have shown that lead levels at the site have ranged from nondetectable in the creek near the land to 136,600 parts per million - 340 times higher than the state's allowable level - in the ground at the building near the former gun factory.
The Ithaca Gun Co. plant made guns and ammunition from 1880 to 1986 in the buildings next to the contaminated land. The company has since gone bankrupt, restructured and moved. The buildings also have new owners. Money from the federal Superfund will pay for the project.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020726/6015990.asp
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
7/26/2002
ITHACA (AP) - Turbo-vacuums will suck up 4,500 tons of lead-contaminated soil in a $2 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency project.
The five-month cleanup began this week as workers sprayed water on land near the former Ithaca Gun Co. site, about 50 miles southwest of Syracuse.
The spraying helped keep lead dust out of the air as truck-mounted vacuums began gathering the soil, which will be covered and sealed in metal containers before being trucked to a hazardous-waste landfill, said Jack Harmon, the EPA's on-site coordinator.
Tests in past years have shown that lead levels at the site have ranged from nondetectable in the creek near the land to 136,600 parts per million - 340 times higher than the state's allowable level - in the ground at the building near the former gun factory.
The Ithaca Gun Co. plant made guns and ammunition from 1880 to 1986 in the buildings next to the contaminated land. The company has since gone bankrupt, restructured and moved. The buildings also have new owners. Money from the federal Superfund will pay for the project.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020726/6015990.asp
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878