[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, RADIATION: Sandia Lab (NM) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group battling Environment Department over Sandia lab landfill

By SUE MAJOR HOLMES
Associated Press/Las Cruces Sun-News (NM)
April 11, 2008

ALBUQUERQUE - An activist group that has battled for years to force 
Sandia National Laboratories to dig up a mixed waste landfill is asking 
the state Environment Department to take another look at the issue in 
light of an agency decision on a landfill at another lab.

State Environment Secretary Ron Curry in May 2005 ordered Sandia to put 
an earthen cap on the landfill to prevent water from seeping in and 
carrying off contaminants and to do long-term monitoring.

But Citizen Action contends Curry denied the same kind of cap for a 
smaller landfill, Area H, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The 
Environment Department has recommended Los Alamos encapsulate the waste 
at Area H in shafts with a technical design to protect drinking water 
and do stringent monitoring for solvents and tritium.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8893518

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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