[CPEO-MEF] Downstream from Hanford (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Columbia River toxins moving up food chain

By Craig Welch
Seattle Times
July 10, 2006

VANCOUVER, Wash. - First were the crayfish near Bonneville Dam, so 
loaded with toxins that scientists wondered how they could still be alive.

Then researchers learned Columbia River fish were contaminated enough 
that nearby tribes face dramatically higher risks of disease. Scientists 
since have found deformed sturgeon, uranium building up in clams near 
the Hanford nuclear reservation, and water in parts of the last stretch 
of the river as contaminated as Seattle's Duwamish River, a federal 
Superfund site.

Over the past five years, virtually unnoticed amid other issues, 
scientists have unearthed a wealth of new information detailing the 
extent of toxic contamination in the Columbia River, enough that the 
Environmental Protection Agency added the entire 1,200-mile river to a 
shortlist of major waterways demanding national attention.

...

For the entire article, see
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003116801_columbia10m.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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