2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 20 Sep 2006 16:00:25 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Hanford (CA) sodium dichromate spill
 
State requests EPA fine for Hanford spill


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER September 20, 2006

RICHLAND -- Washington state issued a notice of violation Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Energy for leaking a highly toxic and potentially cancer-causing agent into ground at the heavily contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The leak of sodium dichromate occurred as workers were digging up an old pipeline near a nuclear reactor, about a half-mile from the Columbia River.

The concentrated material potentially endangered workers, as well as the already contaminated groundwater and the spawning salmon and other fish species in the river, said Jay Manning, director of the Washington Department of Ecology.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/285757_filler20.html

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