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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA to Return to Niagara Falls
Boulevard Site Niagara Falls, New
York to Continue Cleanup Work
Community Update
September 2018
EPA encourages public
participation. If you have any
questions or would like
additional information
regarding the site, please
contact one of the following:
Michael Basile
EPA Community Involvement
Coordinator
186 Exchange Street
Buffalo, NY 14204
716-551-4410
basile.michael@epa.gov
or
Peter Lisichenko, P.G.
EPA On-Scene Coordinator
347-276-6251
lisichenko.peter@epa.gov
UPDATE ON THE SITE
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will return to the
Niagara Falls Boulevard site (9524 Niagara Falls Boulevard - bowling alley
parking lot and adjacent 9540 building supply store parking lot) Niagara
Falls, NY. in September 2018 to continue cleanup work. In the 1960s, a
glass-like, granulated by-product called "slag" from former industrial
facilities was used as fill material on both the bowling alley and building
supply center properties prior to paving. The fill material contains low levels
of radioactive elements, which may present a health risk over the long term.
EPA will begin excavating material from the asphalt parking lot in
September to reduce any risk to the public.
ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTIES
In 2013, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
and the New York State Department of Health conducted a review of the
bowling alley and building supply center properties and ultimately referred
the site to EPA for further assessment.
EPA also performed a gamma radiation survey of the Niagara Falls
Boulevard property and collected soil samples. The occupied interior space
of the bowling alley was found to be free of contamination. EPA detected
some radiation above acceptable screening levels in several areas within the
building supply center. These portions of the building were constructed on
top of the asphalt parking lot. Occupied offices of the building supply center were previously cleaned up. Now
EPA is returning to excavate the parking lot.
PHASED APPROACH TO FIELD WORK
EPA began its work at the site in 2017 and conducted a short-term cleanup beneath the offices of the building
supply center by excavating contaminated materials and replacing it with clean fill, installing a new concrete
floor and other restoration activities. In addition, EPA excavated an area behind the parking lot that also had
contaminated low level radioactive materials and replaced it with clean fill in preparation as a staging area for
future activities.

SUFERFUND
TASK
FORCE
In May 2017, EPA established a task force to restore the Superfund program to its rightful
place at the center of the Agency's core mission to protect health and the environment.
epa.gov/superfund/superfund-task-force

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EPA is returning to excavate the parking lot. EPA will excavate the low level radioactive material, stock-pile it
in the staging area behind the two businesses in a secure area, and prepare it for off-site shipment to a regulated
facility out of state. Clean fill will replace the excavated materials and the parking lot will be repaved. During
all excavation activities, EPA will monitor the air to ensure that both workers and the public are protected. It is
anticipated that this project should be completed in late 2019.
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SUPERFund
TASK
FORCE
In May 2017, EPA established a task force to restore the Superfund program to its rightful
place at the center of the Agency's core mission to protect health and the environment.
epa.gov/superfund/superfund-task-force

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