Vintage Camaro Pics - Page 13

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #**121** 03-26-2003, 11:32 AM

Ah! The plutonium pic [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Jeff H · #**122** 03-26-2003, 12:47 PM

That is still has to be the best musclecar picture of all time. To think that lot is packed with 427 Camaros. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

DarrenX33 · #**123** 03-26-2003, 01:29 PM

Used that picture as wallpaper on my PC. A lot of $ there. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

JoeC · #**124** 03-26-2003, 02:08 PM

I visited that lot and you can still hear the rumble of all those factory 427s. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
here is a pic from last year. Ground is a lot higher because of filling by the Gov. to seal the radiation.

JoeC · #**125** 03-26-2003, 02:09 PM

here is close up of sign and info from Gov web site

In 1978, Congress passed the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) to clean up 24 abandoned sites nationally that had processed uranium and related ores for the federal government. Under the UMTRCA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was directed to set general standards for the cleanup at the processing sites and properties where tailings had been blown by the wind or used in construction. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was authorized to clean up the sites to meet EPA standards with the concurrence of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Remedial actions at UMTRA Project sites must also comply with the EPA ground water protection standards published in the Federal Register in January 1995.
The inactive uranium processing site in Canonsburg, Pa., was designated for remedial action under the provisions of the UMTRCA. It is one of 24 UMTRA Project sites located in nine western states and Pennsylvania. The purpose of remedial action is to minimize or eliminate potential health hazards resulting from exposure of the public to residual radioactive materials (RRM) at the processing sites and at vicinity properties. Cleanup of the Canonsburg site was conducted under the direction of the DOE in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SITE DESCRIPTION
The 18.6-acre Canonsburg site contained 376,100 cubic yards of RRM, and lies between Chartiers Creek and the ConRail tracks in the Borough of Canonsburg. About 54,000 cubic yards of RRM from the site were moved to a nine-acre site in Burrell Township between October 1956 and January 1957. The Burrell site is about one mile east of Blairsville, Pa., between the Conemaugh River and the ConRail tracks.
HISTORY OF THE SITE
The Canonsburg site was operated as a radium extraction plant by Standard Chemical from 1911 to 1922. Later, Vitro Corporation of America acquired the property and processed ore to extract radium and uranium salts. From 1942 until 1957 Vitro was under contract to the federal government to recover uranium from ore and scrap. For the next nine years, the site
was used only for storage under an Atomic energy Commission contract. In 1967, the property was purchased by the Canon Development Company and was leased to tenant companies for light industrial use.
REMEDIAL ACTION
Remedial action at the Canonsburg site consisted of placing the RRM in a disposal cell designed to meet EPA longevity standards for 200 to 1,000 years of safe storage. The cell occupies six acres and has a clay liner to protect ground water from contamination by RRM. The tailings were placed atop the liner and covered with three feet of clay, soil and a bentonite mixture, which serves to prevent the escape of radon gas from the tailings and the penetration of water into the cell. The radon barrier was then covered with layers of rock and soil and seeded with grass. Remedial action was completed in 1985 at the Canonsburg processing site. The RRM at the Burrell Township site was stabilized in a manner similar to the approach used at the Canonsburg site. Remedial action was completed in July 1987. The NRC licensed the Burrell site in May 1994 and the Canonsburg site in January 1996.

JoeC · #**126** 03-26-2003, 02:15 PM

Maybe lost Yenkos can be found using Geiger counter to pick up high background radiation of 69 Camaro parts cars [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]

ORIGLS6 · #**127** 03-26-2003, 05:05 PM

KH, Found this in some recent stash.

ORIGLS6 · #**128** 03-26-2003, 05:07 PM

A few more.

ORIGLS6 · #**129** 03-26-2003, 05:08 PM

Hoss at home.

ORIGLS6 · #**130** 03-26-2003, 05:09 PM

And "Really at HOME!"

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