OT Oregon landfill accepted 2 million pounds of radioactive fracking waste from North Dakota

Nice to read the Oregon mods are in a radiant mood today.

 

I wonder where the radioactivity comes from? I know they use some nasty chemicals for fracking, but radioactivity would serve no purpose. Seems odd, maybe there’s some backdoor deal where radioactive material from some 3rd party is getting slipped in and disposed of on the cheap.

 

Nevermind I looked it up I guess the frack water/chemicals bind to naturally occurring radioactive materials from deep in the earth and carry them back up to the surface when they purge the well.

They forgot to mention that to us in training when I was doing frack flowbacks. Whoopsie daisy! Must’ve slipped their minds.

 

“F you, pay me”

Has been the downfall of so many people...

 

Read the Notice of Violation.
Specifically article IV - Classification of Violations
"While the Department determines that the violation resulted from a lack of due diligence on the part of CWM Arlington, there is no evidence to suggest that the violation was willful in nature. In meetings with the Department following discovery of this incident, staff of CWM Arlington stated that they thought they had understood the waste in question to be exempt from the administrative rules associated with radioactive waste disposal, but this incident demonstrated to them that their interpretation of the exemption requirements was in error. 3. The Department has concluded, based on a preliminary assessment of available data, that the disposal action has not resulted in a significant adverse impact on the health and safety of the public or on the environment.
They continue with
a. Any potential impacts to groundwater resources are currently controlled via the liner and leachate collection system at the landfill.....
b. There is currently no exposure pathway that could present a direct exposure, ingestion, or inhalation risk to human receptors from the subject waste in its present location and configuration.....
c. The past risk to landfill operators as a result of exposure to the subject waste materials at the time the waste was emplaced may be estimated to be within regulatory and safety limits based on two recent analyses performed for TENORM disposal questions in other states.

The Action Required in Article V is extremely vague at best. This Notice was posted on Feb 13th. They have 30 days to respond but there is a Caveat if they admit to the violation but cannot make corrections within 30 days. They are asking for complete quantitative analysis of the issue. It would take years to do. This issue looks like its going to get swept under the rug because the mess is too big a problem to clean up. What are they supposed to do now? load the waste back on trucks and try to ship it back? That won't fix the residual damage.

Bottom Line? This is a Shit Show at best.

 

Happy 161st Birthday indeed. Fracking Waste, a huge homeless issue (#1 in unsheltered homeless), trash everywhere when we used to be one of the cleanest states in the country, #36 in Education, and now the #2 state in Child Sex Trafficing, it's sad to see the direction this state has gone in.

 

It really is pathetic. Doesn’t have to be this way. Such terrible leadership. Sad my kids are growing up in “this” Oregon. I grew up in the great oregon.

 

Make Oregon Great Again

 

BTW, the Mormons are experienced in this space..

https://www.energysolutions.com/clive-disposal-facility/

 

Tisk tisk. You can't have cuss words in thread titles.

 

Do we remove, “Oregon” or “North Dakota”?

 

And there won't be any changes to that leadership as long as they want to run because people just vote for the D or R next to the name

 

Whoops sorry i didn't know is inexcusable when it comes to nuclear F'ing waste.

 

49th in Mental Healthcare Facilities.

 

Seems like maybe some Federal Transportation of Hazardous Waste may have been violated also.