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City to accept two‑year Ohio Department of Health contract to monitor radiation near Burke Lakefront Airport
Summary
Committee approved an emergency ordinance authorizing the public health director to enter agreements with the Ohio Department of Health to reimburse the city for weekly air filter sampling and laboratory analysis to monitor radiation in the vicinity of Burke Lakefront Airport; estimated funding is about $31,000 over two years.
The Cleveland City Council finance committee on Sept. 22 approved an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of public health to enter into one or more agreements with the Ohio Department of Health to reimburse the city for monitoring radiation near Burke Lakefront Airport for two years.
Commissioner David Hearn of the Division of Air Quality summarized the program for the committee. The city will collect weekly air samples using two filter media — a paper filter and a charcoal filter — that will be sent to the Ohio Department of Health laboratory in Reynoldsburg for analysis. “This grant provides us with the opportunity to collect samples on a weekly basis,” Hearn said, adding that the ODH processes the data and returns the results to the city.
Hearn told the committee his division has not seen elevated readings “as long as I’ve been here.” He said the grant helps the city monitor potential radiation from the two nuclear plants the program looks at and to reassure the public by producing regular laboratory‑analyzed results. He cited the grant estimate at “a little more than $31,000” over the two‑year period.
Council members asked about site selection; Hearn said the sampling location is Burke Lakefront Airport at the request of the Department of Health and that the chosen downtown sampling location provides appropriate monitoring rather than siting monitors along the city’s edges. The committee approved the ordinance.
