Remedial Investigation Contract Awarded for Joslyn Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program Site

BUFFALO, NY, UNITED STATES

09.27.2019

Story by Andrew Kornacki 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District is pleased to announce the award of a remedial investigation contract for the former Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Company located in Fort Wayne, Indiana under the authority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The remedial investigation contract was awarded to Plexus Scientific Corporation of Alexandria, Virginia.

The contractor will complete field work that entails the collection of soil and groundwater samples. In addition the contractor will complete radiological scans of the on-site buildings that were used during the historic Manhattan Engineer District and Atomic Energy Commission activities. This investigation is being completed to determine if this historic work adversely affected the site. The Corps of Engineers will work with the contractor to develop work plans before field work begins in 2020.

From 1943 to 1952, the Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Company worked under government contract to temper, hot roll, quench, straighten, cool, grind, cut, and thread natural uranium billets into metal rods. The 23-acre Joslyn Site was entered into FUSRAP in 2009 and assigned to the Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District.

Additional information is available on our public website at:
https://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/Missions/HTRW/FUSRAP/Joslyn-Manufacturing-and-Supply-Co-Site/.

If members of the community are interested in receiving updates regarding the progress being made at the site. They can email [e-mail] to be added to the sites email distribution list or the site’s mailing list.

• Date Taken: 09.27.2019
• Date Posted: 09.27.2019 10:51
• Story ID: 344114
• Location: BUFFALO, NY, US