[CPEO-MEF] Hanford (CA) sodium dichromate spill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State requests EPA fine for Hanford spill


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
September 20, 2006

RICHLAND -- Washington state issued a notice of violation Tuesday to the 
U.S. Department of Energy for leaking a highly toxic and potentially 
cancer-causing agent into ground at the heavily contaminated Hanford 
Nuclear Reservation.

The leak of sodium dichromate occurred as workers were digging up an old 
pipeline near a nuclear reactor, about a half-mile from the Columbia River.

The concentrated material potentially endangered workers, as well as the 
already contaminated groundwater and the spawning salmon and other fish 
species in the river, said Jay Manning, director of the Washington 
Department of Ecology.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/285757_filler20.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
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