UPDATE on EPA’s cleanup of radioactive waste in LOW

  • [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

By Gary Meyer, TME

Last week we reported the discovery and cleanup of radioactive materials discovered in an abandoned garage on Crable Street in Lake of the Woods.

The Environmental Protection Agency wasn’t able to get back to us with answers to some of our questions until after we had gone to press.

Here are the EPA’s official answers to those remaining questions.

How much of a health risk is posed…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

An EPA contractor on September 19 carrying a radioactive instrument found in a Lake of the Woods garage during July.

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This is part of the September 29, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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