Aerial photo of NE Church Rock Mine, Photo: United Nuclear Corporation (UNC)
Comment: Please read all three articles about the problems that are still haunting our families out west from uranium mining more that 30-40 years ago. The uranium companies and the federal government just left the people out west with a uranium nightmare. Virginia is in bed with the French and the Canadians nuke bunch and will let them come to Virginia and ruin our countryside with open pit uranium mine plus a uranium mill and a bunch of nuke plants! People of Virginia, tell the so call Virginia leaders to ban uranium mining and milling NOW!
Comment: Please read all three articles about the problems that are still haunting our families out west from uranium mining more that 30-40 years ago. The uranium companies and the federal government just left the people out west with a uranium nightmare. Virginia is in bed with the French and the Canadians nuke bunch and will let them come to Virginia and ruin our countryside with open pit uranium mine plus a uranium mill and a bunch of nuke plants! People of Virginia, tell the so call Virginia leaders to ban uranium mining and milling NOW!
Gallup Independent
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau
Red Water Pond Road residents prepare for relocation
CHURCHROCK — General Electric and its subsidiary United Nuclear Corp. are preparing to spend $5 million to remove about 97,000 cubic yards of radium-contaminated soil from around three households on Red Water Pond Road and an unnamed arroyo next to the former Northeast Churchrock Mine.
Seven Navajo families live in the three households, but for the next five months they are facing “relocation” to apartments in Gallup as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s interim removal action.
Northeast Churchrock Mine cleanup plan under fire
Gallup Independent
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau
CHURCHROCK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented its cleanup plan for Northeast Churchrock Mine to a lively group of concerned individuals and Navajo Environmental Protection Agency officials Tuesday evening at Churchrock Chapter House.
Andrew Bain, remedial project manager with EPA’s Superfund Division, fielded questions regarding its preferred cleanup alternative which calls for excavation of all mine waste soil and sediments exceeding 2.24 picocuries per gram of radium and consolidating them in a disposal cell on the United Nuclear Corp. mill site, or constructing a new cell at the mill.
Addressing Uranium Contaminationin the Navajo Nation
Northeast Church Rock Mine (NECR)
Gallup, New Mexico, NECR is the highest priority abandoned mine cleanup in the Navajo Nation. The mine adjoins the United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) uranium mill site, a Superfund site managed jointly by EPA Region 6 and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The mine is mostly on Navajo tribal trust land, while the mill is on private fee land. At the request of the Navajo Nation, EPA is using Superfund authority to investigate and clean up the NECR mine site, in coordination with the existing adjacent Superfund site clean up.
After identifying a large volume of radium-contaminated soil, in 2007 EPA took emergency action to remove 6,500 cubic yards of soils from around four residences with the highest contamination levels. EPA spent $990,000 on the excavation, and required UNC to safely dispose of the soils at an additional cost of $1.3 million.
To address the long-term threats from the NECR Mine, EPA developed a removal plan in spring 2008. EPA developed an Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis (EE/CA) report that proposes potential remedies for the mine site and will hold a 30-day public comment period in the spring of 2009. A remedy will then be selected out of this process for the eventual mine cleanup.
For more information about Superfund activities at this site, see North East Church Rock Mine Cleanup.
http://www.epa.gov/region09/superfund/navajo-nation/ne-church-rock-mine.html
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau
Red Water Pond Road residents prepare for relocation
CHURCHROCK — General Electric and its subsidiary United Nuclear Corp. are preparing to spend $5 million to remove about 97,000 cubic yards of radium-contaminated soil from around three households on Red Water Pond Road and an unnamed arroyo next to the former Northeast Churchrock Mine.
Seven Navajo families live in the three households, but for the next five months they are facing “relocation” to apartments in Gallup as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s interim removal action.
Northeast Churchrock Mine cleanup plan under fire
Gallup Independent
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau
CHURCHROCK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented its cleanup plan for Northeast Churchrock Mine to a lively group of concerned individuals and Navajo Environmental Protection Agency officials Tuesday evening at Churchrock Chapter House.
Andrew Bain, remedial project manager with EPA’s Superfund Division, fielded questions regarding its preferred cleanup alternative which calls for excavation of all mine waste soil and sediments exceeding 2.24 picocuries per gram of radium and consolidating them in a disposal cell on the United Nuclear Corp. mill site, or constructing a new cell at the mill.
Addressing Uranium Contaminationin the Navajo Nation
Northeast Church Rock Mine (NECR)
Gallup, New Mexico, NECR is the highest priority abandoned mine cleanup in the Navajo Nation. The mine adjoins the United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) uranium mill site, a Superfund site managed jointly by EPA Region 6 and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The mine is mostly on Navajo tribal trust land, while the mill is on private fee land. At the request of the Navajo Nation, EPA is using Superfund authority to investigate and clean up the NECR mine site, in coordination with the existing adjacent Superfund site clean up.
After identifying a large volume of radium-contaminated soil, in 2007 EPA took emergency action to remove 6,500 cubic yards of soils from around four residences with the highest contamination levels. EPA spent $990,000 on the excavation, and required UNC to safely dispose of the soils at an additional cost of $1.3 million.
To address the long-term threats from the NECR Mine, EPA developed a removal plan in spring 2008. EPA developed an Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis (EE/CA) report that proposes potential remedies for the mine site and will hold a 30-day public comment period in the spring of 2009. A remedy will then be selected out of this process for the eventual mine cleanup.
For more information about Superfund activities at this site, see North East Church Rock Mine Cleanup.
http://www.epa.gov/region09/superfund/navajo-nation/ne-church-rock-mine.html
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