Removal of Manhattan Project-era waste begins at Lewiston storage site [Video]

LEWISTON, N.Y. — After decades of studies, community meetings, and public outcry, Manhattan Project-era radioactive material is finally being removed from a storage site in Lewiston. 

“It’s great to start moving dirt here,” said Jeffrey Hall. 

Hall is the Chief of the Niagara Falls Storage Site Integrated Technical Office for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

The Niagara Falls Storage Site is located on Pletcher Rd. in Lewiston, on the site of the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW).

LOOW was originally a TNT manufacturing facility during World War II, but it was quickly converted to a storage facility for the Manhattan Engineering District. Throughout the development of the Atomic Bomb by the Manhattan Engineering District, radioactive waste materials were shipped to LOOW for storage. 

Radioactive material and residues, in the form …