Colonie Interim Storage Site environmental report for calendar year 1992, 1130 Central Avenue, Colonie, New York. Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)
This report describes the environmental surveillance program at the Colonie Interim Storage Site (CISS) and provides the results for 1992. The site is located in eastern New York State, approximately 6.4 km (4.0 mi) northwest of downtown Albany. From 1958 to 1984, National Lead (NL) Industries used the facility to manufacture various components from depleted and enriched uranium natural thorium. Environmental monitoring of CISS began in 1984 when Congress added, the site to the US Department of Energy`s (DOE) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). FUSRAP is a program established to identify and decontaminate or otherwise control sites where residual radioactive materials remain from the early years of the nation`s atomic energy program or from commercial operations causing conditions that Congress has authorized DOE to remedy. The environmental surveillance program at CISS includes sampling networks for external gamma radiation exposure and for thorium-232 and total uranium concentrations in surface water, sediment, and groundwater. Several chemical parameters are also measured in groundwater, including total metals, volatile organics, and water quality parameters. This surveillance program assists in fulfilling the DOE policy of measuring and monitoring effluents from DOE activities and calculating hypothetical doses. Results are compared with applicable Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) standards, DOE derived concentration guides (DCGs), dose limits, and other DOE requirements.
- Research Organization:
- Bechtel National, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-91OR21949
- OSTI ID:
- 10177077
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/OR/21949--368; ON: DE93018600
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ABANDONED SITES
CHEMICAL AND THERMAL EFFLUENTS
COMPILED DATA
CONTAMINATION
GAMMA RADIATION
GROUND WATER
HEALTH AND SAFETY
METALS
MONITORING
NEW YORK
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
SEDIMENTS
SURFACE WATERS
THORIUM 232
URANIUM
VOLATILE MATTER
WATER QUALITY