A state environmental official says Marcellus shale drilling
sludge dumped at a landfill in Harrison
County
Division of Water and Waste Management director Scott Mandirola
says the sludge contains a fraction of a year's acceptable radiation exposure
for workers.
Mandirola says Waste Management won't be cited for dumping the
sludge at its Meadowfill landfill.
Another Waste Management landfill in Pennsylvania
Mandirola says inspectors with the West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection checked the sludge at the Meadowfill landfill with
radiation detectors. He says it measured 20 microrems per hour above natural
radiation levels.
He says the federally acceptable exposure level for radiation
workers is 5 rems per year, or 570 microrems per hour.
