ML20197J446
| ML20197J446 | |
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| Site: | 07000903 |
| Issue date: | 03/20/1986 |
| From: | Young R HARLEM VALLEY ALLIANCE, WINGDALE, NY |
| To: | Murley T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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Ma rch 20,1986 To M r. Tom Mu rley Region 1 Administr ator Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region 1 Y $ng of Pru ssie, Norristown PA.
19406 From Robert Young member Harlem Valley alli9nce PO Box 920
'Ningdale, NY 12594 Dea r M r Mu rl ey, John May, Generel Manager of .'este Manegement Services tvith Nucleer Energy Services suggeted that you could be centacted for info-mation regarding the " hot spot" found at the 'r ste Disposal Building a
of dae former site known as Nuclepr Lake in Pawling New York.
Since the appalachian Trail is due to be opened on the site we are concerned for the safety of those who would be hiking this Summer, Any information concerning the removn1 of fixed contamination
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in what had been the Taste Disposal Building would be appreciated.
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v PAWLING. N.Y., March 19 - This Nuclear Lake was declared fit for un.
summer, a new stretch of the Appala-restricted use by the Federal Nuclear chaan Trsd is to open throu a 1.000*
Regulatory Commission la tr75, al.
acre tract of National Park and here. though New York State included it on a The new stretch. which mnds for two hst of puasably. contaminated sites la mdes through roHing halls, was blazed 1963.
carefully to avoid a stummering pmd in 1979. the Federal Government pur.
with the ominous name of NucJear chased the site for almost $1 millaan for i
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Thelaki, the site of a p'utonium spau en 1972, has been at the center of a de-4 Tests Are Recon== dad beta between ares residents and the But an outcry frorn residents, who National Park Service. Since the Park said they feared that the cleanup had Service acquired the tract seven years been incomplete, quickly brought these ago, residents have argued that a traal plans to a wandst21L The Nuclear Lake i through the sita represents a serious Management Committee, an advisory health rtsk.
board to the Park Service, concluded "It's iminosta to use a nuclear waste after reading documents the cornpany
' s:ta as a pasable playground." raid left in the buildings that radioactive
' Janet Griffut, a member of the Harsem waste water may have been dumped in Valley Alliance.
the lake and the sewers. It recom-For almost 20 yean,this scenic tract mended thorough testing of the lake a southern Dutchess County was the and the sewers before showing pubuc y
ruted N 1 reu e then, officials say, the testing mmsever.ri n.senemmes After an explasson that broke windows has proceeded haltingly, slowed both Nuclear Laka la Pawllag, N.Y.The Natlanal Park Service seguind to pand and 1,00>ecre tract la 1979.
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by lack of furnis and the park servtce's anium dust, the plant waf closed and a inexpr.unca mth nuclear contamina. Georgia, and the Nuclear Lake site was k
I wckyear cleanup of the site undertag.
uan. Last month, the Nuclear Regula-purchased as part of the National Park sa.
tory Commission ordered cleanup Service's contunung # fort u obtaan a work on a contaminated aree discov* wooded rights of way along 6ts s ntire 3p w ered in the old wasta storage budding-leratb.
J But the New York /New Jersey Trail But opponents sa the trail group is
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the Appalactuan Trau ta the two states. before tesimg ts compiete. we keep M
has decided that the path it has chosen saytrig, 'What's the rush?* " said Johm
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through the Nuclear I.ake site is safe Franceschi, a founder of the Hartern plans to open the trad to lukers this with an answer."
<y The group is snoving &! wad mth its Valley Alliance. "They cannot come up pg hr gr r
4 summer-Charles Shaw, a Dutchess County N
"Nothing has been found that says it Cooperauve Extenska agent and ca.
shouldn't be opened." said Ron Rosen. chairman cf the NucJear Lake Masage-chairTnan of the Dutchess County Ap* ment Commattee, said be was not palachian Trad Management Commit
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tae, a volunteer organization that stuch he sasd requared the manage.
maamtains the Dmde stretch of the ment committee's approval. He sand tras! that runs through the county.
rus group did not plan to meet agala L
Moving Trail Off Reads until the tests it had rararam*=ided I
Mr. Roern said the new path would were completed.
bring the Appalactuan Trad off local l
roads and back into the woods. The Tests of M d h
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I trad runs for 2,100 mdes from Maine to But Carol leone, an effletal of the' Appelschian Trad Profect Office of the Nadonal Park Service, said that the e-trad openkrig could prrreed without the g
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committee's appruval. "The blazing '
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,;,ervice dould con-Fred Gerty Jr. of State Department of Eevironmental Conservatlee poettet sign warnirig hlkers of peastble danger of radioactivity near pond area.
tinue to seek ways to coroplete the a
.I recommended tests at the atta.
Mr. Rosen said the path chceIm for coursgo hikers te visit the lake BN et the places where the trail enters tt me vomK M
the trad was safe "In the sense that sides agree that the [meNWy that the Nuclear Lake site.
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there's been nottung found to say it ts take buttun as contaminated monas But critics say these measures m i
otherwise."
visitors should be barred frams ks huk not enough. They say the new trati wi "T
f Sad and vegetation samples taken mediate vicuuty.
enty improve access to a spot the j g;g fu along the trad, wtuch runs 3.200 feet W park service restricts a" man h enght to be made inaccessible.
from the take, have shown no traces of
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the take with a gate and the NaHanan According m Mr. Rosen, the pmtew g% j;***"'
radioactivity and the aree meets Fed-park Service has prtated bedreds of ers "would rather see trw take dtsa; Jfff.
eral standards for **unrestrteted use,".*no entry" signs that wars of "potan. peer fmns the face of th n,A,
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Mr. Itosee sald. Besides, he said, "the ul hcuve danger" at the lah "But that's all history now, he sak Qdf","d'Y'"^$,(y,,*u='acua Trad vuiurueers g a po=t the eigs. T'",'%dge %
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8 * " I their energy to malung sure the test The trail will be moved to withia the trad group and the protesters as The AwaLactuaa Trad Conference are completed. "!n that area we wour 1,20s feet of Nuclear Laha.
hether opening the new path wiu en-ate r4 ara ea Mar *== r"*
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