{"id":313425,"date":"2026-08-04T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:14:11","slug":"grand-island-to-allow-radiological-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313425\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Island to allow radiological assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Grand Island has given permission to the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct radiological assessments at town-owned or town-controlled properties.<\/p>\n<p>The assessments were unanimously approved at Monday&#8217;s town board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to DEC officials, Veterans Park on Bedell Road has been flagged as a location for testing. This comes as the organizations have been <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/07\/26\/more-niagara-county-homeowners-request-radiation-screenings-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actively surveying homes<\/a> and properties in and around Niagara County.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the organizations pollution has been discovered at around 120 homes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>A public informational meeting will take place Monday, Aug. 10, from 3-7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Town of Grand Island has given permission to the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2476,113,2025,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308,380],"class_list":["post-313425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-community","tag-buffalo","tag-community-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}