LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) have begun removing contaminated soil along the steep south-facing slopes of Los Alamos Canyon adjacent to the Los Alamos Townsite.
The contaminated soil is primarily associated with legacy outfalls and surface disposal from the Manhattan Project and early Cold War research and site management activities. EM-LA is conducting the cleanup under its Historical Properties Completion Campaign in coordination with LANS and its subcontractor TerranearPMC (TPMC). That contractor successfully completed EM cleanup on other nearby sites in 2016, and near the Smith’s Marketplace in 2015.
The above photos show scenes from May 24, 2017 - the day a spider excavator was deployed at the first of two cleanup sites.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
