The U.S. Forest Service is seeking comments on a study that offers various options to clean up uranium waste rock piles in the Young Ranger District in the Sierra Anchas, even though they say they have no funds to carry out any of them.
The Payson Roundup reports that some of the tailings sites are along Workman Creek which empties into Roosevelt Lake. Although the USFS urges people not to eat fish caught in the creek, no dangerous levels of radioactivity have reached the lake. [right, opening to Little Joe 1 mine, Workman Ck area, 2008. Credit, USFS]
The study is available at www.fs.fed.us/tonto.