{"id":247352,"date":"2026-07-19T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:51:23","slug":"community-meeting-for-erie-niagara-radiological-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247352\/","title":{"rendered":"Community meeting for Erie, Niagara radiological assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, state Department of Health and and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are set to host a meeting on Monday on the ongoing radiological assessment in Erie and Niagara counties.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are expected to provide an update on the survey results to date, a look at what&#8217;s nextand to share with people how contamination is being addressed.<\/p>\n<p>People will also be able to ask the DEC and EPA questions.<\/p>\n<p>The community meeting is set for 5 p.m. Monday at the Niagara Falls Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>This topic is back in the spotlight after earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/07\/10\/radioactive-pollution-discovered-in-niagara-falls-yards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">radioactive pollution<\/a> was detected in the yards of at least 120 homes in Niagara County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want residents to feel safe in their homes and have the certainty required to help give the assurances that they need to feel protected, and that&#8217;s why we wanted to be proactive here,\u201d state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton said. \u201cThat&#8217;s why started on this path to begin with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, state Department of Health and and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1611,1610,1131,136,138,137,139,1592],"class_list":["post-247352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-buffalo","tag-community-news","tag-environment","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}