I’m looking for any info and history about nuclear lake in NY. Has anyone ever gotten sick from swimming in it? My dog and I both got cancer 2 years after going for a swim in that lake. My cancer is the type the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki got. I’m cancer free now and trying to figure out how I got it in the first place.
I’ll be your buddy, I’ll be your pal if you give me some good info.
Captain K-man
I swam in it for about an hour in 2002… I don’t glow in the dark. ONly health problems are Arthritis.
Hammock Hanger
Well, I Googled for an hour and didn’t find much on the three eyed fish water Sue drank but I did find this.
It lists the history and accidents of nuke power. Makes the Al Gore global warming movie look tame. “47,500 55gal barrels of high level nuke waste dumped into the ocean off San Fransisco”. Or about 9,700 tons. Slightly less than 1/4 of the Titanic?
BW
BW, good reading, thank you very much.
One of the things I saw was
“1980 (May 18) Mt. St. Helens explodes less than 40 miles away from Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (Ranier, OR.)” Is it me or is it just dumb to build a Nuclear Power Plant near not 1 but 2 volcanos?
Captain K-man
I like the,“man walks around with radiography device in pocket, has both legs amputated”.
Anyone have anything on the Nuke Lake other than it’s banned for “recreational activities”?
BW
It wasn’t a nuclear lake, it was a pond behind the Palmerton EPA Superfund site. You don’t remember because the toxins in the water have made you daffy. Also that’s not your dog that got cancer but your former hiking partner now wife … but I guess in your mind …
Geiger
We recently swam there and then spoke to a local about its history. (this is hearsay). She had been there since the 80’s when the accident occurred (70’s sic?). Anyways, the incident sounds like it was downplayed. Apparently, they were doing some black glove “box testing” with plutonium and motor oil and of course there was an explosion. They apparently cleaned it all up. She says some of her friends involved as environmental liasons say there are still roentgens in the area, confirmed by a counter. She couldn’t say what kinds of levels however. Additionally, she said there was issue with the dam/retaining walls to the lake around the same time they were doing the cleanup and it was rumored that the facility had buried barrels in the lake. So the gov’t/community drained the lake to repair the retaining wall and apparently found some barrels at the bottom. She says they never publicly disclosed what was found in those barrels.
So, the ATC picks up the land and they have a bypass route around the lake. She told me that’s for people that are buggered out about the lake. However, the walk around path which is carved in a board appears to be just on the other side. But we all know that fallout can create hotspots so maybe the other side of the lake is upwind. Who knows—Thanks for the reminder to do my research about it. When we hiked by it, I told myself we were gonna just cruise by…but instead we all swam out to the middle island and relaxed for 20mins…Beautiful lake–saw several locals walking their dogs out there…Should be ok–it’s not like chernobyl. A geiger counter will tell the truth…
jp
Shoot, the locals say the riverside campground at Damascus, Trail Days is a Superfund site. Not radioactive, some heavy metals. I don’t know how true that is, perhaps someone from VA could weigh in. I do know an old plant (dye? batteries?) used to be there.
Jan LiteShoe