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News Releases Lab to discuss runoff controls at public meeting
Detention ponds limit contaminated sediment flowing down canyons.
May 17, 2011—LANL experts on Tuesday (May 17) will describe how the Lab is complying with a new EPA stormwater permit that regulates runoff at several hundred Cold War-era environmental sites.
The meeting will be held at the Cities of Gold Hotel in Pojoaque from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
With the rainy season approaching, attendees can learn more about the program, the system of baseline controls installed at more than 400 sites, and the Storm Water Monitoring Plan for this summer.
For more information, check out the new website or a related news release from April 27.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines