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Perspective for your consideration …What does it look like when it’s fixed…?

More fencing, but no cleanup…Federal officials tell Hopi villagers that the $38 million price tag to remove uranium waste threatening local springs and wells is too steep to win congressional approval. …By CYNDY COLE …Sun Staff Reporter …Sunday, September 07, 2008 …EXCERPTED … VILLAGE OF UPPER MOENKOPI -- Hopi residents and tribal leaders demanded on Wednesday that federal agencies clean up radioactive waste threatening the water supply for at least one Hopi village. But federal agents attending an informational meeting here on the water contamination committed only to more planning and fencing off the area, but not the cleanup sought by the tribe, citing the expense of up to $38 million. Tribal employees and a hydrogeologist working for the tribe said uranium waste left in an unlined dump outside Tuba City threatened the shallow, spring-fed drinking water system for about 1,000 residents in the nearby village of Lower Moencopi. "There is an imminent and substantial threat to human health and the environment," said Nat Nutongla, director of the Hopi Tribe's water office, on Wednesday night. "... We can't just continue to look at more studies, more passing the buck, because that is what created this problem to begin with." … The water is currently deemed safe to drink by the EPA. "There is an immediate need to alleviate the potential threat to water sources from that landfill," said Carl Warren, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's manager for this project. The tribe was justified in being upset and distrustful of the federal government, Warren said, recounting a story.
"There have been nine-plus years where nothing has been done," he said. The plan is to somehow close the dump, which is on the Navajo-Hopi border, by 2012.

For more than 9 years now EPA has done NOTHING to prevent or clean up the radioactive waste threatening the water supply for one Hopi village. On the other hand for nearly 8 years now your ADEQ has done NOTHING to take a pro-active position respecting the safety of the water you ingest here in “metro” Phoenix.

In both instances EPA and ADEQ want to apply some cursory “band-aide” while a cancer festers beneath the surface, just out of your sight.

In both cases the EPA and ADEQ are lead by individuals who came into office promising to “serve & protect” but we never sought to ask whom…? Obviously it is not you or me, but rather corporate interests who have so generously funded the political campaigns of George W. Bush and Janet Napolitano.

The fact is it is highly unlikely either will be in office in 2012, it’s your life they’re playing Russian roulette with today, but apparently you don’t mind…?