[CPEO-MEF] Sandia Labs (NM) waste

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Commentary: Sandia Labs' landfill lets chemicals seep into the aquifer

By David B. McCoy and Robert Gilkeson
The Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
August 10, 2006

A hundred thousand cubic feet of a deadly witches' brew were dumped in 
shallow trenches atop the Albuquerque aquifer at the Sandia 
Laboratories' Mixed Waste Landfill on Kirtland Air Force Base.

But the prediction that a vegetative cover - like "sweeping the rug over 
the waste" - can protect the aquifer from the downward migration of 
long-lived radioactive waste, volatile organic chemicals and heavy 
metals is based primarily on well monitoring data.

Some new - and not so new - evidence has emerged that the existing 
monitoring wells themselves have furnished incomplete or worthless data 
about the contaminants of concern

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/op_commentaries/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19866_4907773,00.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
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