[CPEO-MEF] Sandia National Laboratory (NM) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Appeals court upholds environmental agency's landfill ruling

By DEBORAH BAKER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arizona Daily Star
December 20, 2007

SANTA FE - The state Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by the 
Environment Department that allows Sandia National Laboratories to cover 
a toxic waste dump with dirt rather than dig it up.

The appellate court, in a ruling issued Wednesday, affirmed Environment 
Secretary Ron Curry's decision in 2005 not to require excavation of the 
Albuquerque area landfill.

Activists want the mixed waste - radioactive and other hazardous 
materials - dug up and stored because of fears it would contaminate 
groundwater.

Citizen Action, the group that challenged Curry's ruling, will consider 
an appeal to the state Supreme Court, director Dave McCoy said.
The court decision "does not resolve any of the issues that have arisen 
at this dump site," McCoy said. "What we need is excavation of these 
wastes and protection of the drinking water."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/217073.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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