Piedmont Residents In Defense of the Environment
http://prideva.blogspot.com P.O. Box 11521, Danville, VA 24543-1521
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
October 4, 2011 Karen Maute 434-429-4672
Danville, VA- Ann Rogers, the author of the recently released Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) report documenting the presence of frequent and pervasive flooding at Coles Hill, the proposed uranium mine and mill site in Pittsylvania County, VA will present and discuss her findings on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at the Danville Public Library , 511 Patton St., Danville, VA
Piedmont Residents In Defense of the Environment (PRIDE), a chapter of BREDL, is sponsoring the presentation.
PRIDE business meeting begins at 6 PM.
Ms. Rogers is scheduled to speak at 6:30 PM. Members of the public and elected officials are encouraged to attend.
The report titled, Historic and potential flooding at proposed uranium mine and mill site: Coles Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, demonstrates not only that pervasive flooding regularly occurs throughout the Coles Hill site but also that flooding and other hydrological features would increase the risk of radioactive contamination, should the site eventually be used to store uranium mill tailings.
BREDL calls for a systematic study of the hydrology at Coles Hill to determine whether mill tailings can be stored there with any assurance of safety throughout the 10,000 to 100,000-year period during which the tailings remain radioactive. This type of study has never been performed for Coles Hill.
The report is available at: http://www.bredl.org/pdf3/BREDL_Report-Historic_and_potential_flooding_in_ColesHillVirginia.pdf
