Date Published: 03/09/2020 [Source]
The Southeast Steuben County Library, 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza, Suite 101, Corning, will host a program on the health risks of radium and radon in the Hakes Landfill in Steuben County and the Chemung Landfill in Chemung County at 11 a.m. March 28.
David Carpenter and Raymond Vaughan will speak about the evidence for high levels of radium and radon in the landfills from the landfills' own leachate test results and what these levels mean for the health of those working at the landfills or living downwind or downstream from them.
The Chemung and Hakes landfills are the two landfills in New York taking the greatest volume of drill cuttings from gas drilling operations in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania. The leachate test results for both landfills show significant levels of radium and radon breakdown products.
For information: sierraclub.org; ssclibrary.org.