Logistics Firm Completes Work on Radioactive Landfill

15 December 2011

Wexford, Pennsylvania based packaging and logistics provider, MHF Services has recently concluded work on the long - running Shpack Landfill Superfund Site remediation project in Norton, Massachusetts.

The Shpack Landfill is an abandoned eight acre domestic and industrial site managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP).

According to MHF, the primary source of contamination at FUSRAP locations stems from the processing of uranium ores and the disposal of the byproducts.

MHF said that over the previous six years it has assisted the USACE and its prime contractor - The Conti Group - in removing approximately 77,400 tons (70,200 tonnes) of low level radioactive waste and non-regulated material from the site to a disposal facility in the Western U.S.

In addition to Shpack, the company said that it has provided services at several other FUSRAP sites.

MHF said that its services on this project included packaging, technical services to complete shipping manifests, equipment, truck transportation from the site, truck-to-rail transloading, and rail transportation.

According to the company it also supplied private equipment including gondola railcars and Articulated Bulk Container (ABC) flatcars and proprietary packaging including Super Load Wrappers and Lift Liners for the project.

MHF said that it performed the transloading activities at a facility it operates in Worcester, Massachusetts, making a total of 774 railcar shipments.


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