** The elevation of the road and the profile of the road was designed incorrectly. The road would have been only one foot, seven and a half inches over the water main which would mean the water main would have frozen in winter. Wendel Engineers were paid twice. Once to design it wrongly and then to design it correctly. There is some dispute over who made the design error.

**Mayor Paul Dyster chose to hire an Iranian man, living in Los Angeles, Ali Marzban, to be the city engineer. He was found to be unlicensed by the Reporter and shortly after fired. But not before he signed off on the Man O’ Trees job.

** After a period without an engineer, Dyster’s second appointment, Tom Radomski, was hired then resigned in 2011 after a residency investigation.

** The official position of the DEC is that this material comes from the production of phosphorus, and has nothing to do with the Manhattan Project. The DEC says the “slag” is from phosphorus from Oldbury Electro-Chemical, during or after WWII. Oldbury produced Phosphorus Materials, phosphates for dishwashing and laundry detergents, industrial phosphates and they produced phosphorus for the bombs that incinerated Dresden, Germany. The company was succeeded by Hooker Chemical.

** Slag is the ‘cream” on top of a hot vat of molten metal that is scraped off and expelled from the mix: The crust on the top. When it hardens it is called “slag.”

** Wendell Duchscherer doesn’t have a Nuclear Physicist on staff.

** Man O’ Trees, when they first got involved in the bidding process, did not have a HAZMAT license.

**Industry in Niagara Falls, like the carbon, graphite, chemical, metallurgical companies, had been supported by the Manhattan Project. Niagara Falls may have been the free world’s largest production center for uranium, the material used in the Hiroshima weapon, for the first years of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission.

**Niagara Falls handled uranium, plutonium, thorium, actinium. In Niagara Falls, we created the metal rods that would go into a reactor that would become critical in Fission.

**At the height of the manufacturing of materials, solid waste could be spread around as fill in yards, for driveways, for road bedding, etc.

CONFLICTING OPINION

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster told the Reporter he believes there is no danger to residents and added his father lives on Lewiston Road and he has other friends and family living nearby.
“The residents trust that I would not allow them to (incur danger),” he said.

Niagara Falls contamination researcher and writer, Lou Ricciuti’s response is, “I will tell Dyster to his face in front of reporters what I think he has done here is a crime to humanity. I will be happy to back up with other scientists who I have briefed over the years regarding what is going on here who agree with me.”