ML20040C173
| ML20040C173 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Byron  |
| Issue date: | 01/20/1982 |
| From: | Doherty J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0848, RTR-NUREG-848 NUDOCS 8201270354 | |
| Download: ML20040C173 (2) | |
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- Ilouston, Texas 77021 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D. C. 20555 RE: COMhiENT ON NUREG-0848, DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT WITH REGARD TO OPERATION OF TIIE BYRON STATION, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. STN-50-454 and STN 50-455 (Commonwealth Edison Company)
To whom it may concern:
John F. Doherty, J.
D.,
of Houston, Texas, offers the below comment on the above titled commission publication:
The DEIS is incomplete, because it does not mentian any impact of the cyanide dumping at the cite which was evidently discovered in May of 1974, and later. (See attachment)
That is, the omission of mention of the evident discovery of large numbers of discarded waste barrels at the cite, is not thorough enough in view of the fact that wells are drilled for use of the cite, and that large amounts of water will be evaporated for cooling. The Commission has a duty to the public to at least notify the public that it has inquired (if indeed it has) of what the effect would be of quantities of undiscovered hazardous waste of the type previously discovered in the environs were to inadvertantly interact with the various plant water systems.
This would include both the general public and plant employees. In addition, this would include an assessment of the need for other than normal monitoring of water quality in the area of the plant due to the possible presence of hazardous materials yet undis-covered.
Where there is no mention of the " Dirk's Farm" dumping it appears the public is not being fully served.
See attached: " Laying Waste" by Michael Brown, Pantheon Books, 1
1981 edition, Page 115.
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Thank you.
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John F. Doherty, J.
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LAYING WASTE P
NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK Fi suddenly calves were reportedly being born with their will take the chance of consuming organic materials of '
r high toxicity until a permanent solution is agreed upon i
heads and feet twisted, their tongues crooked, and between Salsbury and the various governmental agen-their limbs uncontrollcd, and without any hair.
cies. For some,it me already be too late: AccordIrigig Ilecause of their isolated nature, farmlands had been ThECTean Water Report, a prelimmary study of people favored by many independent haulers as places to living in Black Liawk and Floyd counties, where unload their unusual trash away from the view of authoritiet They would trek down a back dirt road to CliEes City arto Waterloo ap located, has shown pump, to dump, and then to flee responsibility. For an 4
What rnay oe " elevated icveis of bladder cancer, but unknown number of years. hundreds if not thomands no proof of a connection.
of fif ty-five-gallDD_and_1hiIlypilon dmms_cnntaining i
Here were alarming signs that the Charles City cyanides. he.svy metals. and other materials frorn
_mrtaLfinishing pmcenes were discarded on farm pollution, though perhaps unique in its breadth, was p_roperty nearllyro_ndllinois, that was later purchased but one of many dozens of waste hazards that had been i L
shelved by the regulatory agencies only to return in a by the Commonwealth Edison _ Company for a nuclear ~
reactor. Inc dumping had ceased aroundT972, but its later decade to haunt the environment and infiltrate the ;!
trail was observable in the contaminated runoff that vital organs of plants, animals, and humans alike. It appeared when rains were heavy. It was also to be i
was a rare state that did not have a clear-cut example of well contamination for the EPA record books. I
-6 noticeable in another way: on Alay 20.19711hree heard stories of livestock drinking from fouled ponds cattle were discovered dead on the land from~no appar-t ent cause. The mystery was not so for long:
and turning sterile, and of families who had recurring seizures, rashes, and chest pains after ingesting mer-4 Pathological stuuies revealed death by cyanide poisoning. Lookiug for the cause, Commonwealth cury that had collected in their wells. The ailments Edison found 1,511 containers of mire on what was continued to mount as landfills, excavated ten or known as " Dirk's Farm," and discovered that the e
twenty years before, began to dissolve their soil bar-scepage had damaged not just cattle but also water-
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tiers, belatedly displaying their forces of debilitation.
Eighty acres of groundwater in Saint Louis Park, fowl, vegetation, and the bottom-dwelling organisms hiinnesota, had been tainted with phenols, threatening.L of the closest stream. Several other dumpsites, un-marked and unauthorized, were found within a mile the water supply for twelve cities including hfin.
radius of the farm. In one test, water runoff contained neapolis. DDT, leaking from the United States Army's old Redstone Arsenal, had accumulated to the tune of levels of cyanide that were nearly two thousand times thousands of tons in or near the Tennessee River. In the federal standard for drinking water, leading to fears that the land in the general vicinity could never be used Yerington, Nevada, there was a gasoline taste to the g
wellwater, with a community landfill located nearby.
for crops again. While the surface flooding was in Agana, Guam,old munitions dumps were suspected poisoning the topsoil, far belew the chemicals had of discharging zinc into the groundwater. Then there contaminated the potable groundwater, so that wclls I
was llodgenville, Kentucky, where it was feared but serving sixty-eight rural homes had to be closed.
The same trauma befell the New Jersey property not proved that paint thmners from a waste-collection owned by the Samuel Reichs, a farming couple from facility had spread into streams and drinking wells; 115 114
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