[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Sampling for RDX at Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM)

[Lenny Siegel]

Feds test aquifer for contamination of RDX

Los Alamos Monitor (NM)
October 22, 2018 

Chemicals used to make high explosives have reached the regional water supply, the Los Alamos federal environmental manager discovered two years ago

The contractor for the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management field office is drilling a second well to find out just how much contamination has occurred.

Officials expect to find out the results in November.

“When we drove (well) R-68 a couple of years ago, it was identified that there was actually RDX down in the regional aquifer,” Environment Department Los Alamos Manager Doug Hintze told the Los Alamos County Council Tuesday during a question-and-answer session about the recent activities of the field office’s new legacy waste cleanup contractor, N3B.

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