ML19350B489

Affidavit Re Potential Problems W/Evacuation of Residents of Amesbury,Ma

ML19350B489
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/06/1981
From:	Pearson M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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O AFFID AVIT OF MAYNARD PEARSON I, Maynard Pearson, Civil Def ense Director for the Town of Amesbury, do hereby depose and say as follows:

1. The Town of Amesbury, Massachusetts is approximately 3-1/2 air miles from the nuclear reactor site at Seabrook, New Hampshire.

2. Its population of 16,000 increases by 500 to 700 people in the summer.

3. There are three highways l'.ading out of town. These are Interstates 95 and 495 and State Route 110.

4. In an evacuation, there may be bottlenecking and congestion since there are too many small roads f eeding into the. highways.

5. Concern about such congestion will increase if nearby

New Hampshire towns develop plans to use the same evacuation routes we must use.

6. Amesbury has a hospital with 75-100 beds, six nursing homes and five schools.

7. A full evacuation of Amesbury residents would take six hours.at'best. It is possible that the time could be i

l decreased by the use of adequate alarms which are not now available to us.

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[ any actual evacuation, I feel that the issue of emergency

evacuation planning should be addressed at the earliest

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! penalties of perjury this 6th day j- of March, 1981.

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