Under EPA oversight and in combination with the Navajo Nation EPS, General Electric conducted two prior cleanups at the site to deal with remaining contamination, including the remove and reconstruction of one building in 2007 and removal of 40,000 tons of impure soil in 2010.
The new accepted plan is based on six years of work and more than 10 public meetings with the local community, the Navajo Nation and others during the public meetings, residents uttered concern that the removal of mine waste with nearby United Nuclear Corporation Mill site tailings could cause groundwater contagion uneven settling of the tailings, or other problems with the current impoundment.
The multiyear cleanup will be conducted in several phases design of the removal facility will take place over a three-year period construction of final mine sign cleanup will be finished by 2018 the cleanup will place the impure soil in a lined, capped facility.
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