[CPEO-MEF] "Pantex [TX] eyes possible land buyout"

[lsiegel@np.craigslist.org]

Pantex eyes possible land buyout

2,200 acres wanted to clean groundwater

By Jim McBride
Amarillo Globe News (TX)
August 25, 2006

The Pantex plant is eyeing a plan to buy about 2,200 acres of land and
water rights east of Pantex to clean up contaminated groundwater
threatening the Ogallala Aquifer.

The off-site pollution exceeds "health-based" levels, but the proposed
land buy would grant Pantex officials access to contaminated perched
groundwater for future cleanup and prevent Ogallala contamination, a state
environmental official said.

The perched aquifer contaminant plume seeping from Pantex to the south and
east includes RDX, a high explosive used in nuclear weapons, hexavalent
chromium, a toxic chemical made infamous by the movie "Erin Brockovich,"
and other contaminants.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/082506/new_5405979.shtml

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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