The Buffalo Chronicle
Niagara and Erie County Radiological Assessment
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New York won’t reopen the Love Canal neighborhood investigation. The family that found waste in its backyard is still waiting on tests
The state DEC and Health Department have declined a rare petition to relocate the McKiernan family on 99th Street and reinvestigate the neighborhoods around Love Canal. Advocates call it a “bureaucratic declination,”…
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Feds sue the successor of a Niagara Falls manufacturer over radioactive waste under two Lewiston homes
The Justice Department is suing NLI Holdings to recover what the EPA spent digging about 10,000 tons of radioactive waste out from under two homes on Upper Mountain Road. A former owner’s…
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Radioactive slag was documented at a Town of Niagara drive-in in 2020. Neighbors are still waiting for answers
A 2020 report for Niagara County’s land bank found radiation on a vacant Witmer Road drive-in across Gill Creek from homes and recommended a $1.25 million cleanup. Six years later, neighbors are…
