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Citizens Committee to Save Cayuga Lake records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2909

Scope and content

Newsletters, news releases, pamphlets, reports of the committee and other groups, hearings, slides and text of slide lecture, correspondence, reprints, articles and clippings documenting the group's successful effort to halt the construction of a nuclear power plant on Cayuga Lake by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG). Material largely deals with the environmental impact of nuclear power, especially thermal pollution.

Dates

1968-1980.

Creator

Citizens Committee to Save Cayuga Lake (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The committee was headed by David D. Comey as executive director; Cornelia H. Hill was chairman, and Alfred W. Eipper headed the Scientific Advisory Committee.