[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY DEPARTMENT, FORMER SITES: "DOE to start toxic waste cleanup at [Los Alamos, NM] Canyon"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DOE to start toxic waste cleanup at LA Canyon
Contaminated soil - Project part of consent order to address legacy waste sites left behind from Manhattan Project, Cold War

By Tris DeRoma
Los Alamos Monitor (NM)
July 1, 2016 

Department of Energy contractors will start removing toxic contaminated soil along the south-facing slopes of Los Alamos Canyon next week, as part of a program to clean up legacy waste sites in Los Alamos.

The contaminated soil is mostly leftover from the Manhattan Project and early Cold War research activities from 1943–1965.

Work is scheduled to begin on the canyon’s south-facing slopes near the location of the former Los Alamos Inn, which was located at 2201 Trinity Ave, near the Los Alamos Medical Center. The contaminated soils will be shipped from the site at 2201 Trinity Ave., near the Los Alamos Medical Center, and temporarily stored at Tech Area 21. The soils will be moved to a more permanent area once tested

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/doe-start-toxic-waste-cleanup-la-canyon

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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