Board members from the Pike County Chamber of Commerce recently visited EM’s Portsmouth Site for a tour and an update on decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) and other environmental cleanup efforts.
Portsmouth Acting Site Lead Jeremy Davis and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth (FBP) Site Project Director Greg Wilkett met with the group before the tour to discuss cleanup progress and what’s ahead for the site. FBP is the site's D&D contractor.
“Our mission here is to safely clean up the site and prepare the land for future reindustrialization based upon community input,” said Davis. “We are close to transferring additional acreage over to the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI), our designated community reuse organization. Keeping local business stakeholders informed of the development potential here is key.”
In addition to touring the parcels of land that SODI is currently marketing for reuse, the group visited the X-326 uranium process building demolition project to learn more about the debris disposal efforts underway as well as protections in place for air and water quality. Crews completed the teardown of the half-mile-long building earlier this year, marking the most significant cleanup milestone to date at Portsmouth.
Another stop along the tour was the X-740 groundwater plume excavation and remediation project. The excavation was finished in 2021. The group also visited deactivation efforts underway at the X-333 process building in preparation for future demolition. The tour concluded with a stop at the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility.
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