ML20071H158
| ML20071H158 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 05/19/1983 |
| From: | Bogardus R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8305240530 | |
| Download: ML20071H158 (2) | |
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Dear Sir:
Many of our residents, as well as our police, school and village officials, have expressed concerns about the adequacy and workability of the current evacuation plan for the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
These concerns which appear to have been inadequately addressed in the plan would, in our estimation, render the plan unworkable. They are as follows:
A.
We have a nursing home in our Village with 160 residents; 130 of which can only be evacuated by ambulance.
We see no provi-sion in the plan for the necessary ambulance support required to safely and adequately evacuate this facility. We note, also, there are other nursing homes and hospitals within the
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ten-mile radius that will have the sa=e requirements. Addi-tionally, we have a number of sick or incapacitated residents living in private homes in the village who also require special transportation out of the arlea.
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Our village police have no protective clothing that would enable them to remain in the area to direct an orderly evacua-tion and protect property.
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Our Police Department does not have the radio capabilities to go.
communicate with other police departments within the evacuation oo area. Without adequate communications, it would be impossible Q@
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Our village has a 17-man police force and a 300-man volunteer fire department, along with 12 auxiliary policemen, however y
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At present, there are only two roads which can be used for egress out of the Village to the south:
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Possibly some consideration should be given for supplemental evacuation by rail or boat.
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The plan for student evacuation from the schools, which has been changed from busing to White Plains to sending the stu-dents home, involves even further problems. The parents and teachers in the Croton Schools do not want the children bused to White Plains. However, sending the students home does not seem to be entirely the answer, either.
Many mothers with small children work out of town and there is no one at home to receive the children during the day.
The school nurse ad-vises that when a child gets sick during school, it sometimes takes hours to locate a parent or guardian.
One mother that stays at home may cover for many working mothers in an emer-gency situation but only one child at a time is usually in-volved.
We, therefore, do not believe that the student evacuation problem has been adequately addressed.
We ask that you give these concerns your immediate consideration, and advise us of their resolution.
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