Starmet/NMI: Contractors to Start Shipping Waste Off-Site Next Week

Up to six trucks could be leaving the site per day as cleanup efforts continue at the superfund site in West Concord.

Trucks loaded with waste materials will start rolling away from the Starmet/Nuclear Metals superfund site in West Concord next week, another step forward on the long road toward remediation. Beginning next week, as many as six trucks could begin leaving the site daily, according to the latest update from Bruce Thompson, project coordinator for de maximus inc. Loaded trucks leaving the site on weekdays will avoid rush hours and school bus hours, and receive safety and radiological contamination inspections before leaving the gate. Their route will proceed east on Rt. 62, to Rt. 2 west and then on to 495, according to Thompson’s memo, which said the removal of building contents will continue through the end of 2013. The off-site disposal of…

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What’s Going on at the Starmet/Nuclear Metals Site?

Some outdoor site work will begin this week during normal business hours.

  Neighbors to the Starmet/NMI in West Concord could be hearing chainsaws and heavy equipment this week as the contractor tasked with demolishing the superfund site will begin some outdoor activities. That’s according to a notice posted to the town website, which explained the outdoor activities “will include clearing trees near the buildings and some minor earthwork to prepare staging areas for trucks and to install a truck scale.” Site work and demolition of the buildings 2229 Main St. comes more than a decade after the Starmet/NMI site was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 2001. An agreement to remove the buildings came in 2011, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, …

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