Hopis (and Navajos) prepare lawsuit over ever-delayed mine cleanup

The Arizona Daily Sun reports:  "After 12 years of asking various federal agencies to clean up a federal dump they contend is leaching radioactive waste into the local aquifer, the Hopi Tribe is tired of waiting for action.

The Hopi Tribe filed a notice of intent to sue Thursday, stating that a plume containing uranium and other contaminants leaching from an open dump near Tuba City was within 2,500 feet of contaminating water supplies for two Hopi villages. The pollution left in the unlined dump -- a dump created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- is an "imminent and substantial" threat to public health and the environment, and is a result of multiple federal agencies approving Cold War-era mining and milling operations that have polluted multiple landscapes in Arizona, the tribe asserted.

The Navajo Nation has already filed a notice that they intend to sue over the same issue."

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