Inc currently owns and operates a treatment, storage, disposal, and recovery facility near the center of the former LOOW property. It is the only hazardous waste landfill remaining in the Northeastern United States, and was the location where the anthrax-contaminated desk of news-anchor Tom Brokaw was disposed of in 2001. Modern Disposal Services operates a landfill on the former LOOW property. Other uses Approximately 380 private residences and a mobile home park are located within the footprint of the former LOOW site. A school, several small farms, a campground, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, which attracts thousands of visitors annually, are also located in the former LOOW site. Safety concerns In 1981, the New York State Assembly Task Force on Toxic Substances wrote that the LOOW was "born in the crisis of war", and that: The report added that radioactive waste had been stored "in rusting barrels stacked along the roadside". Author Ginger Strand wrote about the LOOW in her 2008 book Inventing Niagara: "the Army Corps engineers, currently charged with the cleanup, readily admit they don't know everything that went on there". An extensive study conducted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers concluded in 2014 that there was "no evidence of potential source areas or releases of contamination to groundwater, surface water, or soil associated with any of the ground disturbances evaluated" at the former LOOW site. Currently, approximately or 93 percent of the original LOOW site meets the criteria of a Formerly Used Defense Site, making it eligible for environmental restoration funds available from the U.S. Army. One portion of the property containing contaminated groundwater is listed as a Superfund cleanup site. A 2005 article in the Niagara Gazette alleged that radiation at the site was causing an ongoing hazard for the nearby Lewiston-Porter Central School District. References Geography of Niagara County, New York Manhattan Project sites Project Nike Radioactive waste repositories in the United States United States Army arsenals United States Army arsenals during World War II Installations of the U.S. Department of Defense Superfund sites in New York (state) Landfills in the United States Environmental issues in New York (state) United States Department of Energy facilities 1941 establishments in New York (state)