Martin’s Ferry: Austin Master Services’ 10,000 tons illegally stored radioactive frac waste, 500 feet from Ohio River, clean-up continues with power washing.

Austin Master Services facility undergoing power washing by: Michelle Chavez, Apr 3, 2025, WTRF

Power washing is underway at Austin Master Services, the company accused of storing illegal amounts of radioactive and fracking waste in Martins Ferry, Mayor John Davies said. 

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) told 7News the first phase of the cleanup was completed August 9, 2024.

In a statement from November 2024, the ODNR stated the deadline for full remediation was set for May 23, 2025.  In that statement, the ODNR explained,

“The remediation requires thorough cleaning, which will involve multiple rounds of power washing throughout the entire site.”

At this week’s council meeting, Mayor Davies told 7News part of the cleanup involved using rail cars. The mayor also said power washing began at the facility.

“They’ll power wash it, then they’ll test it,” Mayor Davies said. “If it’s not contaminated anymore, they’ll move on to the next section. If it’s contaminated, they go back and power wash it again.”

The ODNR has said they will not be re-permitting the site to be used by a different oil and gas waste company.Instead, they’ll permit it for a day care, or perhaps a centre for seniors? Put Trump in there, his Nazi pal Musk and the DOGE boys, with no PPE. Let them drink the power wash waste until it’s gone and the site is clean.

Refer also to:

2025: Orange Nazi insanity: “Safe drinking water” is woke, “diesel” too! Verboten, banned for use in USA Dept Agriculture! To prepare for frac’ers and Musk to dump toxic radioactive waste everywhere and anywhere?

2024: MUST WATCH! Frac’ers are poisoning us with radioactive waste: “It’s people begging for enforcement.” Ohio’s DNR “knew what was happening” just like AER. “It’s greed at its worst.” When I asked AER to enforce it’s “World-Class” regulations after Encana broke every law in Alberta in place to protect drinking water, AER violated my charter rights instead (enabled by Canada’s lying supreme court and Alberta judges)

Austin Master illegally stored 10,000 tons of radioactive debris in Martins Ferry, just 500 feet from the Ohio River.

A trucker who hauled the toxic fracking waste told us he wasn’t informed what he was carrying.

Ohio regulators let the company get away with it for years. …

2024: Justin Nobel’s book, Petroleum 238, on oil, gas ‘n frac industry’s radioactive waste secret now available: “More Radioactivity Than at Chernobyl.” Jesse Lombardi: “In every single oilfield you will find these oilfield waste treatment centers churning radioactive waste around like pancake mix”

2021: Brilliant courageous Justin Nobel to PA DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection at “Policy Hearing on Closing Hazardous Waste Loopholes” about oil & gas companies “screwing their own workers.” Critical issue in frac fields, including in Canada, because of the massive volumes of radioactive waste generated (Radium 226 persists for 1,600 years)

2021: Ohio: More radioactive frac waste. More deregulation and lies by regulator?

2012: Encana/Ovintive repeatedly dumped its waste on cropland on the coulee top near my home and Hamlet of Rosebud. Run off from storms and snow melt takes this waste into seasonal drainages and on into the river:

The Old Rosebud River meandering through my land

Dilution is the Solution