Published: July 26th, 2011 at 11:19 am ET
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133 acres burned on lab property — Las Conchas: The majority of the burned acreage, though, was due to backburn, Los Alamos Monitor, July 23, 2011:
Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory were insistent throughout that the Los Conchas Fire only came onto LANL and Department of Energy property twice. [...]
On Friday, the Las Conchas Burned Area Emergency Response team released the acreage burned by jurisdiction. The chart said that 133 acres burned on DOE and LANL property.
See also:
- Fire breaks out at Los Alamos Technical Area 53 — Squirrel blamed
- Fire has crossed onto Los Alamos lab property at Technical Area 49
Published: July 26th, 2011 at 11:19 am ET
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Reading the article further: “The majority of the burned acreage, though, was due to back burn.”
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Back burn was a must, there is no question in my mind about that.
Since they said there was two small fires. The back burn of 133 acres that were burned on Los Alamos lab property, was that much of a back burn necessary?
They all did a marvelous job at keeping the fire away from the plant, that is what is important.
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“was that much of a back burn necessary?”
lol… i guess you’re unaware that the Las Conchas Fire has burned close to 160,000 acres.
http://nmfireinfo.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/las-conchas-fire-update-7-21-11/
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State testing ash runoff in river water
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2213925.shtml?cat=504
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It would be interesting for the Albuquerque water department to send their filters to Arnie Gundersen for an independent check on the pending government results.
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Agreed!
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Back burn or not – the question is was this formerly contaminated land?
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Thinking it was. They buried waste..There has been fires and heavy rains before.
Why wouldn’t it be already contaminated?
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Runoff Killing Fish, Pueblo Governor Says
http://www.koat.com/r/28657729/detail.html
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At least a local station is following the situation.
LANL should provide them drinking water from somewhere else, clean.
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If I look at LANL site on Google Earth, it seems greener than 4 weeks ago. They patched old pictures of the landscape over the burnt reality.
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I find the normal google maps images are usually a few years old..
Maybe there is an overlay with the updated images.. Like they did with the Gulf oil spill.
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odiez1, the area was in “one piece” at the time the fires started. Clearly they don’t want us to see what’s left of it.
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What’s this link do for ya?
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/index.php
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Yeah, but, considering few to no ‘officials’ involved in nuclear issues ever tell the truth, or at least the whole truth, there’s a question uncovered here. Off of ‘lab property’ are there any areas on other burned land, where the lab or its contractors ever dumped radioactive wastes in the past?
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Short answer: Yes!
Long answer: There were several articles here and other blogs of officials talking about the widespread dumping of radioactive wastes from way back in the Manhattan Project days. And that it is unknown where all the spots are as maps and records were not kept in the early days!!!
You might look through archive headlines during the dates of Las Conchas fire on this site.
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For ac:
Here’s one listed in Related Stories to this article (see clickable above):
“Radioactive waste was dumped in trenches along six acres above town of Los Alamos — Dept. of Energy official says radiation threat is ‘pretty limited’ July 1, 2011″
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Another one for AC http://enenews.com/just-in-journalist-asks-if-contaminated-waste-was-dumped-in-bandelier-park-los-alamos-official-could-not-answer-bandelier-supervisor-says-over-50-of-area-is-part-of-burn
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