Hot Water: Radioactive Contaminants are Seeping Into Drinking Water Around the US counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation lands to lingering nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project in Missouri to contaminants leaching from phosphate mines in Florida, residents across the U.S. are affected by radiation in their drinking water.
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Emergency vehicles respond after a vehicle strikes a pedestrian on Aug. 21, 2018, at the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
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Residents, environmental activists and local officials say they’re fed up with mud and odors emanating from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
They’re also concerned about radioactive materials they say are present in leachate resulting from waste material the landfill accepts from fracking sites.
Rostraver Commissioner John Lorenzo, speaking Thursday at a virtual press conference hosted by community advocacy group Protect PT, said trucks from the landfill have been tracking mud onto adjacent Tyrol Boulevard, causing many motorists to avoid the road. He speculated that departing trucks may not be “staying in the wash bay long enough.