Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Public Art Project by George Trakas

George Trakas public art environment at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn wastewater treatment plant.
http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/03/george-trakas-at-the-waters-edge-newtown-creek/

St. Anthony Uranium Mine

The St. Anthony Mine is an unreclaimed open pit uranium mine, formerly operated by United Nuclear Corportation. St. Anthony is adjacent to the Jackpile Mine, the worlds largest reclaimed open pit uranium mine, near the village of Paguate at the Laguna Pueblo in Cibola County near Grants, New Mexico. Surface and ground water monitoring continues to register elevated levels of uranium contamination compared to standards set within compliance.

All photographs by Eve Andrée Laramée, copyright 2009. Please use with permission and credit the artist. Contact: http://evelaramee.com

Jackpile Uranium Mine

The Jackpile Mine was the worlds largest open pit uranium mine. Located at the village of Paguate on the Laguna Pueblo near the Grants, New Mexico uranium mining district, it was operated by the Anaconda Mining Company (ARCO - Atlantic Richfield) from 1953 to 1982. The Pueblo of Laguna set up a company to oversee the reclamation of the mine, as no standards for such existed when the mine closed in 1982. The mine lease covered 7,868 acres, and by December 2006, 33,000,000 cubic yards of earth were again displaced to reclaim 2,700 acres. Surface and ground water monitoring continues to register radioactivity throughout this area.

All photographs by Eve Andrée Laramée, Copyright 2009.

Please use with permission only and credit the artist.

Contact: http://evelaramee.com

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