CALL TO ACTION - Resolution opposing discharge of Indian Point water into the Hudson River

RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO THE DISCHARGE OF CONTAMINATED WATER INTO THE HUDSON RIVER 

WHEREAS, the company decommissioning the Indian Point nuclear power plant has announced its intention to release water from onsite radioactive fuel waste pools into the Hudson River; and 

WHEREAS, to date there has been no specific reporting of the radionuclide contents of this water which is heavily contaminated from the storage of the nuclear fuel waste; and 

WHEREAS, pre-release filtration to remove these isotopes has been presented as a solution to reduce the content of these carcinogenic contaminants to a level “as low as reasonably achievable;” and 

WHEREAS, the National Academy of Science has indicated that there is no verifiable safe level of these isotopes when they are ingested or inhaled.; and 

WHEREAS, such pre-release treatment would not remove tritium, also carcinogenic, from the water; and 

WHEREAS, any contaminants in the Hudson present the risk of entering the food chain; and 

WHEREAS, there are community members who depend on fish from the river as a food source; and 

WHEREAS, in addition, there are seven communities upriver who source their drinking water from the Hudson; and 

WHEREAS, since the River is an estuary that flows from south to north as well as from north to south, this fact must be considered; and 

WHEAREAS. the river also serves as a source of recreational activities and represents an economic resource that will be endangered by this reckless action; 

now therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Village of Croton-on-Hudson strongly opposes the plan to release over a million gallons of contaminated water from the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant site into the Hudson River.