Today there's a race against time now that the monsoon season has begun.
Trying to stop the radioactive contaminates created at LANL from going onto neighboring Tribal Nation lands and into our state's largest river, the Rio Grande is an enormous project. Workers began digging up truckloads of the dirt in Los Alamos Canyon where an old decommissioned reactor stands. This reactor leaked for more years than anyone knows, contaminating the area around it. Several of the canyons on lab property are contaminated with these radioactive contaminants as well as toxic chemicals. On Thursday, June 28th the monsoons hit the lab for only an hour and heavy water flows resulted in the closure of State Road 501 from the base of the ski hill road to State Road 4 by TA-16.