buffalo mike Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 This is hard to believe: entire article http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/con...lnuke_0814.html as the sludge to blame? One aspect of their cases will focus on the sludge incident in the early 1980s, which began with a sink that workers thought drained into the plant's radioactive waste system but instead drained for nearly four years into its regular sanitary sewage system, according to court documents. Not realizing that, workers used the sink to wash contaminated items such as respirators, mops and rags. Managers at the time blamed the mix-up on a staff turnover of nearly 100 percent between 1976 and 1978, according to FPL documents. In September 1982, the sink's drain clogged, and officials realized the mistake. At the time, FPL officials publicly acknowledged the sink problem and said two truckloads of sewage sludge from the plant's on-site treatment center, which included contaminated waste from the sink, had been shipped for disposal to a 2,000-acre cow pasture in western St. Lucie County, just west of Glades Cut-off Road. Official say they removed 6 inches of soil from the contaminated area and shipped it to a nuclear waste facility in South Carolina. An FPL spokeswoman said air, soil and water tests at the time showed the site was not a public health risk. "It was contaminated with extremely low radiation levels," FPL's Scott said. But La Vista disputes the finding and said that besides those two shipments from the on-site treatment plant, records show the sink also drained into a septic tank that was pumped out daily between 1978 and 1980. The waste from that tank was taken to the municipal Fort Pierce sewage treatment plant, according to FPL documents. Those shipments also could have sent radioactive material into the air, water and ground, she argues. She said the Fort Pierce plant no longer has any documents that could show how that waste was handled or where it went. "We have no clue where that went," she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 People get cancer. Looks to me like the parents can't handle this and are out for the $. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 It's Love Canal, baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 It's Love Canal, baby. 492281[/snapback] Hey, that was my neighborhood! *sigh* CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Hey, that was my neighborhood! *sigh*CW 492435[/snapback] THAT explains ALOT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 THAT explains ALOT! 492442[/snapback] I get that statement all the time. CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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