Radioactivity in New Jersey's water not a health concern for residents: Indian Point plant in Buchanan JUST 40 miles (65 km) north WAS LEAKING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL INTO THE HUDSON!After the long ongoing travesty of justice with Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) who stand accused of ignoring months of concerning reports on the amount of lead in Flint’s drinking water, with the brown liquid reportedly making residents’ hair fall out and causing rashes on their skin.
Now New Jersey is the latest state with after nine trailers of construction debris were shipped back to a Shafto Road demolition and recycling center after the material set off radiation detection tests at a Pennsylvania landfill.
The likely cause is "naturally occurring radioactivity" from New Jersey's water, and is not a health concern for residents nearby, a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said.
"It's not an emergency situation whatsoever," DEP spokesman Larry Hajna said.
However, what Larry Hajna does not mention is the problematic Indian Point plant in Buchanan, about 40 miles (65 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River which is leaking radioactive material into the river at alarming levels!
Indian Point has previously had a problem with the release of radioactive water, and the levels of radioactivity reported by the company in February were much worse than in past incidents.
One monitoring well showed a nearly 65,000 percent spike in radioactivity, from 12,300 picocuries per liter to more than 8 million picocuries per liter,
The testing equipment at Grows Landfill in Morrisville, Pennsylvania detected thorium 232 in the material that had been shipped by the nine trailers from Mazza Demolition and Recycling, a Tinton Falls material recovery facility.
That caused the debris to be sent back to Tinton Falls.
Officials from Mazza did not return calls for comment.
The debris is the innards of an electric cogeneration plant's cooling tower that was demolished in Lakewood, Hajna said.
The material was once part of a plastic, honeycomb structure that helped the plant recirculate water and steam in the cooling tower.
After years of circulating local ground water, the plastic retained some of the naturally-occurring radium from the water.
New Jersey environmental officials are well aware of radioactivity in ground water and test it regularly to make sure its safe for residents, Hajna said.
Mountains in the northern part of the state have naturally occurring radioactive rocks.
Over geologic time, the rocks broke down and ended up in ground water in certain parts of the state. It's also common for radioactive material from construction demolition to be rejected by landfills, Hajna said. Smoke detectors, which contain small amounts of radioactive material, are often the culprit.
Mazza hired a consultant to determine the source of the material, Hajna said. Ultimately, the material could end up back at Grows Landfill because the radiant is naturally-occurring, he said.
If not, it would need to go to a special landfill that handles such material.
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