BMX URGED TO REMOVE URANIUM ASH FROM COUNTY LAGOON.

Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty has called on BWX Technologies Inc. of Lynchburg, Va., to immediately remove uranium-laden ash from the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority's treatment plant lagoon in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County.

"This community is burdened with waste materials, including some radioactive materials that originated from plants BWX operated at the former Babcock & Wilcox facility in Apollo," McGinty said. "As a matter of good corporate citizenship, BWX should move immediately to remove the material to ...