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 Stories About: Colorado AND Colorado River AND politics AND pollution and waste AND Utah AND water pollution
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High-tailing it out of there
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14 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| High-tailing it out of there The Colorado River -- the water source for 25 million Americans -- is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy's National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provide ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, water pollution (all these topics) |
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