[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, ENCROACHMENT: Army denies Pinon Canyon (CO) uranium

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army denies Pinon Canyon contaminated by uranium
Army expansion opponents even surprised by state representative's claim.

By PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN (CO)
June 20, 2008

Fort Carson officials have to be wondering this week if their 
much-resisted effort to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site is worth it.

Having barely finished containing a wildfire that burned nearly 50,000 
acres of the training site northeast of Trinidad, Army officials were 
confronted Wednesday with allegations from state Rep. Wes McKinley, 
D-Walsh, that he has soil samples showing unusually high concentrations 
of uranium at four sites on the 238,000-acre site.

"I certainly don't think Congress should be thinking about expanding 
Pinon Canyon until we get answers to the questions about where the 
uranium came from and whether that land needs to be cleaned up," 
McKinley said Thursday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/06/20/news/local/doc485b5f3e052cd139733501.txt

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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
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