{"id":252639,"date":"2026-07-27T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252639\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:04:11","slug":"epa-dec-continue-radiological-assessment-in-niagara-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252639\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA, DEC continue radiological assessment in Niagara, Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State and federal environmental officials have been examining more local properties this weekend after the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/07\/10\/radioactive-pollution-discovered-in-niagara-falls-yards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovery of radioactive pollution<\/a> at 120 homes in Niagara County this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation say their crews visited almost 350 properties Saturday, seeking consent to screen those areas, as a larger radiological assessment continues in Niagara and Erie counties.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies detailed the work underway in a joint update Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They say crews reached more than 110 new access agreements Saturday, and screened about 40 private properties on Saturday alone.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery earlier this month led officials to host a wider <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/07\/21\/niagara-county-residents-voice-frustration-over-radiation-concerns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community meeting<\/a> last week, and the agency has already offered <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/07\/19\/community-meeting-set-for-monday-for-radiological-assessment-in-erie--niagara-counties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temporary relocation<\/a> to some people living in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies say anyone with questions about the radiological assessment can call 518-712-8279.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State and federal environmental officials have been examining more local properties this weekend after the discovery of radioactive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1611,1131,136,138,137,1057,139,294,1592],"class_list":["post-252639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-buffalo","tag-environment","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252639","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=252639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}