2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 10 Aug 2006 22:34:55 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Sandia Labs (NM) waste
 
Commentary: Sandia Labs' landfill lets chemicals seep into the aquifer

By David B. McCoy and Robert Gilkeson
The Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
August 10, 2006

A hundred thousand cubic feet of a deadly witches' brew were dumped in shallow trenches atop the Albuquerque aquifer at the Sandia Laboratories' Mixed Waste Landfill on Kirtland Air Force Base.

But the prediction that a vegetative cover - like "sweeping the rug over the waste" - can protect the aquifer from the downward migration of long-lived radioactive waste, volatile organic chemicals and heavy metals is based primarily on well monitoring data.

Some new - and not so new - evidence has emerged that the existing monitoring wells themselves have furnished incomplete or worthless data about the contaminants of concern

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/op_commentaries/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19866_4907773,00.html
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