Residents and advocacy groups are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to intervene and stop the dumping of 1.5 million gallons of radioactive water from the defunct Indian Point nuclear plant.
Such sentiments were expressed on Thursday at a regular monthly meeting for the plant’s decommissioning board that was followed by a public hearing. It lasted four hours as slide presentations from the DEC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Holtec explained why dumping tritiated water in the Hudson is customary and acceptable, and that residents should drink their water with confidence.
Williams’ children, now 13 and 10, attend elementary school about 4,000 feet from the nuclear power plant. She is concerned about the drinking water supply in her town of Peekskill. It’s located about a mile upstream and draws water from a tributary of the Hudson River.about 100,000 people across seven communitiesSamples collected by Holtec at Roseton Station in Newburgh, about 30 miles north of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors, show no traces of tritium.
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