EPA investigatess radiation levels at New York Catholic school near WWII nuclear storage facility

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating potentially elevated levels of radiation at a New York Catholic school that sits just a few miles from a World War II-era nuclear disposal site.

Data collected by the agency alongside state investigators in September from the property of the Catholic Academy of Niagara Falls showed some results that were “near background levels of radiation.”

An agency spokeswoman told EWTN News that the school property, which is also home to Prince of Peace Parish, sits on land with radiation levels “not clearly below our levels of concern and not clearly above them.”

The agency “[doesn’t] have any reason to believe there is significant radiological material based on screening to date,” the EPA said. But “some areas did have slightly elevated levels and were identified for further sampling.”

The school, located in Niagara Falls, New York, is about eight miles from the government-owned Niagara Falls Storage Site. Among the materials on that site is nuclear residue from the United States’ production of the first nuclear bombs during World War II.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has recently undertaken remediation at the…