What are the radionuclide levels in the north and south Miami-Erie Canal?
Please refer to Appendix E of this report; DOE’s Special Canal Sampling Report, July 1993; and the Mound Laboratory Environmental Plutonium Study, 1974, D.R. Rogers. None of the radionuclides in the Miami-Erie Canal are at levels of health concern. • A resident lives near Shepherd Road and the Dayton-Cincinnati Pike near the canal. She is concerned with the water flows from Mound Plant. Personally, I have no problems, but I would like to know what has gone down the canal. Most of the water from the Mound Plant is discharged through a pipe into the Great Miami River; some of it goes to the river via the south Miami-Erie Canal and Overflow Creek. The principal radioactive contaminant in the surface water today is plutonium238; however, the concentration of plutonium-238 in surface water is not high enough to cause anyone adverse health effects. Historically, Mound discharged appreciable quantities of tritium to the canal; however, ATSDR scientists do not think the levels of tritium in th
