The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to remove radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill Superfund site.
The $205 million plan intends to remove about 70 percent of the site’s radioactivity and dispose of the waste at an out-of-state facility. The EPA will spend the next year and a half determining how to clean up the site and how to keep workers and the area residents safe during excavation.
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