ML20237A017

Newsarticle Entitled, Two Towns Want Out of Pilgrim Evacuation Plan

ML20237A017
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	06/28/1986
From:	Bartlett A PATRIOT LEDGER, QUINCY, MA
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CON-#487-5043 2.206, PR-860628, NUDOCS 8712140197
Download: ML20237A017 (2)

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Hanover and Norwell yesterday one town is better than another," the bay of the Sears automotrve center at the mall.. g 4 asked state civil defense authorities said Buzz Hausner of the state civil Hanover and Norwell officials y to' look elsewhere ~ perhaps to defense agency. claim th,e plan is a poor one because fm Qcincy. Weymouth or Braintree - " Plans can and should be revised radioactive runoff could flow into the y M; to wash radioactivity off people and whenever a question arises," said Third Herring Brook, seep into the j -

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Hanover Mall to be used as the wash- puns for Pilgrim, up to 65,000 resi. I cation is reasonable, traf-a $' ,

down site. State officials minimized dents of Kingston, Duxbury, North fic will go through or by,that will,not b the ' possibility that the mau would Plymouth and part of Marshfield contaminate groundwater that might, f ever be used for a major decontami* could go to a reception center at the used for human consumption, y nation effort, but said they will Hanover Mall on Route 53 if the be,d sai Hanover Selectman A. Donald g survey alternative sites. state ordered an evacuation from a I j

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been trying for three years to change Braintree. Since those communities don't think there is rnuch chance of - '

the location of the decontamination have sewers, contaminated water the mall becoming a major decon-center. The most recent emergency could be kept separate from the tamination center because evacua. \1 phn dated August,1985 stillirnplies groundwater supply, he said. Hano- tion would take place before people $

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