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POTABLE WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION AT THE FERNALD ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Christopher Todd Neary
Quality Engineer
Fluor Daniel Fernald
Cincinnati, OH 45253-8704
ABSTRACT
On February 17th, 1996, The Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP), A former
Department of Energy uranium processing facility near the rural town of Fernald, Ohio,
became a "user" instead of a "producer" of potable water by tying into the Cincinnati Water
Works new Public Water Supply System. This satisfied the future site needs of potable water
and nullified the need to follow the sampling requirements set forth by the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Safe Drinking Water Act for potable water producers. This
transformation into a customer also reduced the long water transmission time from the
Cincinnati Water Works station to the small community that would have occurred without a
large user such as the FEMP being on line.
BACKGROUND
Construction began on the Feed Materials Processing Center (FMPC), located 17 miles
northwest of Cincinnati in Fernald, Ohio in 1951. The facility became fully operational in 1953
to produce highly purified uranium metal in support of defense activities. This included
uranium derbies, ingots, billets, fuel cores, and target elements for DOE sites in Rocky Flats,
Colorado; Savannah River, South Carolina; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Hanford, Washington.
National Lead of Ohio (NLO) operated the FMPC from 1951 to 1985 under a contract with the
Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. Westinghouse Materials Company
of Ohio (WMCO) took over operation of the facility in 1986 until 1992. Production at the
FMPC ceased in 1989 and officially ended in 1991. The FMPC was renamed the Fernald
Environmental Management Project (FEMP) in August of 1991 to reflect its new mission of
environmental restoration.
The Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Company (FERMCO), a subsidiary of Fluor
Daniel, Inc., assumed the responsibility of the cleanup in December of 1992. FERMCO was
renamed Fluor Daniel Fernald (FDF) in 1996.1
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Neary, C. Public water supply and distribution at the FEMP, article, October 1, 1997; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc691810/m1/3/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.