The Grand Island Town Board voted to allow the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to continue radiological assessments in the community, including at Veterans Park on Bedell Road.
The vote came during tonight’s town board meeting, where DEC representatives and several residents were present.
The DEC identified Veterans Park as one of the locations flagged during an aerial survey. Because it is a municipal property, the agency needed permission from the town board before proceeding with ground-level testing.
DEC Engineering Geologist Patrick Concannon said the aerial survey identified a point of interest at the park but stressed it does not indicate a confirmed problem.
“Five-hundred to six-hundred-foot diameter to it, basically, we saw 11 points on a map in Veterans Park. It doesn’t indicate that there’s a problem. It doesn’t indicate that there’s something along the lines of some of the concerns we’ve been addressing elsewhere. It’s simply a location of interest,” Concannon said…