The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has announced that it has scheduled a public information meeting prior to the start of remedial work at a radioactive waste disposal site in the Town of Tonawanda.
The session will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on April 18 in the Town of Tonawanda Senior Center, 291 Ensminger Road.
The project will install a 22-acre cap on a portion of the Seaway Landfill Site inside Seaway Industrial Park along River Road, a former Browning-Ferris Industries landfill.
A $17.6 million contract for the project was awarded last September to Mark Cerrone Inc. of Niagara Falls. Work is scheduled to begin in May and be finished by next spring. Preliminary preparations are under way, the Army Corps of Engineers said, and air monitoring will begin 30 days prior to the start of work on the site.
The Seaway Site was created to hold low-level radioactive waste generated locally during the early years of the atomic energy program. The Army Corps of Engineers noted that none of the radioactive material will be removed.
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