Red Water Pond Road Community Association
Red Water Pond Road Community Association (RWPRCA) is a grassroots organization of Diné families who have experienced and lived with the impacts of uranium mining and milling in the Church Rock mining area since the 1960s. Our mission is to restore the land and water contaminated by uranium mining, improve the health of community members, and protect and preserve the natural and cultural environment in which we live. RWPRCA is a nonprofit organization recognized under Navajo Nation laws including Fundamental Laws of the Diné, Title 1, Chapter 2.
Read about RWPRC https://swuraniumimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/16-RWPCA-factsheet.pdf
Read about the community RWPRC Brochure Final 7-11-14
Read about 2016 Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration July 16
Read about EPA Drinking Water Standards and RWPRC https://swuraniumimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/16.06.30-Native-Sun-News.pdf
Read Uranium Fact Sheet RWPRCA Fact Sheet FINAL_jc
Read about Regional uranium mill cleanup EJ comparison
Read about Mongolian activists at RWPRC October 2016
Read about Russian activists joining in sheep butchering at RWPRC October 2016
- Inside the Navajo Church Rock Nuclear Disaster, the largest radioactive disaster in US history that’s somehow often forgottenhttps://www.insider.com/photos-church-rock-the-largest-radioactive-disaster-us-history-2023-6 James Pasley Jun 6, 2023, 11:55 AM PDT In 1979, a dam holding millions of gallons of nuclear waste in Church Rock, New Mexico, collapsed. In a matter of hours, 94 million gallons of radioactive water and 1,100 tons of uranium waste flooded into a nearby river. The spill killed crops and cattle, and … Read more
- Navajo Nation officials, activists feel cut out as company advances uranium mining plans
https://www.the-journal.com/articles/navajo-nation-officials-activists-feel-cut-out-as-company-advances-uranium-mining-plans/ Disposal methods cause concern about future spills, contamination By Hannah Grover, NM Political Report Friday, May 26, 2023 8:54 AM Updated Friday, May. 26, 2023 8:54 AM The view from Church Rock Chapter House overlooks a community concerned about future uranium mining and potential negative impacts to the area and the people who live there. … Read more - ‘We are all forgotten’: Residents await long-delayed cleanup of uranium waste near Cameron
Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic March 18, 2023 https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/03/18/cameron-residents-await-federal-cleanup-of-abandoned-uranium-sites/70016230007/ CAMERON — Beverly Ann Huskon and her cousins, Bob Robbins and Natalie Huskie, sat in the bleachers at Dzil Libei Elementary School in Cameron to hear U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navajo Nation EPA officials discuss the options the community has to deal with waste from … Read more - Mining on Navajo Nation
To view a copy of the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005, click here: Navajo Ban A Legacy of Destruction and No Accountability The nuclear industry has left a devastating legacy of pollution, illness and death. Uranium mining began in earnest on Navajo land during the Grants Uranium Boom from the 1950s – 1980s. … Read more - Navajo community residents wary of ‘devastating’ plan to move uranium tailings nearby
Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic | Feb 23, 2023 azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/02/23/plan-allows-uranium-waste-disposal-near-navajo-community The Red Water Pond Road Community Association wasn’t surprised when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided to issue a license amendment allowing the United Nuclear Corporation to move toxic waste from the Northeast Church Rock mine to the company’s uranium mill site near Gallup. Teracita Keyanna, … Read more
