ML20199E680

Opposes Periodic Disposal of Low Level Radioactive Dredgings from Onsite Settling Basins Onto Land Owned by Util.Requests Opposition Be Considered at 860624-26 Hearings in Sandusky, Oh & Any Subsequent Proceedings.Drinking Water at Risk

ML20199E680
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	06/14/1986
From:	Belcastro P LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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CON-#286-664 ML, NUDOCS 8606230370
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,M ! - 'l-RE: DOCKET NO. 50-346-ML The League of Women Voters, representing eleven individual community Leagues in Cuyahoga County with a total membership exceeding seven hundred, is strongly opposed to the periodic disposal of low-level radioactive dredgings from the onsite settling basins onto land owned by Toledo Edison Company at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1.

The League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County requests that this written statement of opposition be considered at the hearing to be held at Sandusky High School, Sandusky, Ohio, on June 24 through' June 26, 1986,and at any subsequent proceedings.

The League's opposition to the onsite burial of the low-level radioactive wastes at Davis-Besse is based on the League's " Criteria for Evaluating the Suitability of Sites for Hazardous and Radioactive Waste, Storage, and Disposal Facilities" which were carefully developed after extensive study.

According to the criteria, hazardous and radioactive waste treatment, storage or disposal facilities should be sited in areas that pose the least amount of risk to the public and to sensitive environmental areas. They should be located away from areas of critical concerns such as: natural hazard areas subject to flooding; drinking water supply sources (lakes and rivers and their watersheds and aquifers); fragile land areas, such as shorelines of rivers, lakes, bays or wetlands; and rare or valuable ecosytems or geologic formations, significant wildlife habitat or unique scenic or historic areas.

l l The proximity of the proposed disposal site to Lake Erie, the drinking water source for our members; the proposed site's effect on the bordering natural resource areas (Magee Marsh, Crane Creek State Park, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge) which are habitats for valuable wildlife; the very real presence of flooding and storm damage in the proposed l

site area with subsequent water contamination; and the fragile nature of the shoreline ecosytem are all factors which clearly dictate that an off-site alternative for disposal of the radioactive wastes is the more prudent solution.

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i) 9 158 EUCLID AVENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County <216) 781.osss June 14, 1986 PAGE 2 RE: DOCKET NO. 50-346-ML The burial of radioactive wastes at the Davis-Besse Power Station, Unit 1, would be detrimental to the safeguarding of the right to safe drinking water for the residents whom the League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County represents.

Sincerely,

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t Patricia Belcastro t

Natural Resources Chair

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