If You Care About Your Drinking Water:

From Citzen Action:
If you wonder why toxic waste predicted to contaminate Albuquerque’s drinking water is simply being covered with dirt . . . Please attend this public meeting!

NM Environment Department Public Meeting
Sandia National Labs’ Mixed Waste Landfill
Thursday, May 25, 2006, 9 AM – 4:30 PM
Los Griegos Health and Social Services Center
12th and Candelaria, Albuquerque

Members of the public have 14 days to submit comments on the plan outlined at the meeting! Your comments count! (Note: You can read more about the Sandia landfill in an earlier post on DFNM.)

Agenda 

9-9:30 AM
Explanation of the overall plan for the Mixed Waste Landfill and what members of the public have to say about it. 

9:30 – 10:30 AM
Overview of Sandia’s model that predicts the landfill will contaminate Albuquerque’s drinking water by 2010 – is the model thorough? What do members of the public have to day about it?

10:30 – 10:45 AM BREAK

10:45 – 11:30 AM  (topic cont’d)

11:30 – 12:00 noon 
Questions, comments, and recommendations from members of the public

12 noon – 1:15 PM  LUNCH

1:15 – 1:45 PM
Overview of remedy for the landfill – what is it and what do members of the public have to say about it?

1:45 – 2:45 PM
What happens after the landfill is covered and how will it be monitored to prevent contamination from occurring?

2:45 – 3:00 PM BREAK

3:00 - 4:00 PM
Keeping an eye on the landfill over the long-term: can it really work as long as it will be dangerous?

4:00 – 4:30 PM
Comments, questions and recommendations from members of the public

4:30 – 4:35 PM
Closing remarks: 14-day public comment period to make your voice heard! 

For more information contact Citizen Action New Mexico at: (505) 262-1862.

Meeting agenda with explanation of the Citizen Action lawsuit filed against the NMED for issuing a permit to Sandia to cover the dump with dirt is posted on the Citizen Action website at www.radfreenm.org.

Citizen Action is a project of the New Mexico Community Foundation and a member of New Mexicans for Sustainable Energy and Effective Stewardship (NMSEES), an organization promoting a shift at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs from nuclear weapons programs to renewable energy technology and effective clean up of waste sites – like the Mixed Waste Landfill.