Redwater Pond Road and Pipeline Road community members gathered and marched July 15 to remember the 44th anniversary of the containment breach that occurred July 16, 1979, at the United Nuclear Corporation tailings disposal pond.
In a historic move, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission made the trek from Washington D.C. all the way to western New Mexico on April 22 to meet with Navajo tribal members and leaders who desperately want uranium contamination off their lands. KUNM talked with New Mexico In Depth’s Marjorie Childress to find out what the community was saying.