[CPEO-MEF] Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM) - "Trashed and Trampled"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Commentary: Trashed and trampled

The pollutants from powerful Los Alamos National Lab are undeniable, and 
the state must insist on remediation

By Brian Shields
Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
June 7, 2006

The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is the 
pollution legacy of the Manhattan Project.

It threatens the Rio Grande and Santa Fe's regional aquifer.

And the 1,000-pound gorilla is Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the 
wastes were generated.

Los Alamos has discharged wastewater into area canyons since 1943. For 
more than 60 years, radioactive pollutants have been filtering their way 
through surface and groundwater systems. These discharges have 
contaminated the shallow alluvial, intermediate and deep groundwater 
systems.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/op_commentaries/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19866_4757080,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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