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
- OPINION: Federal government must halt new uranium mining and clean up the 500-plus abandoned mines
By Eric Jantz / Albuquerque resident and Teracita Keyanna / Gallup resident | Mar 24, 2024 Updated Mar 26, 2024 https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/opinion-federal-government-must-halt-new-uranium-mining-and-clean-up-the-500-plus-abandoned/article_2b45881e-e7de-11ee-a318-977be50fae4d.html They look like small mesas — indistinguishable, really, from the buttes and juniper-dotted hills that are common features on New Mexico’s landscape. Rather than being part of a landscape that reflects the ebb and… Read more: OPINION: Federal government must halt new uranium mining and clean up the 500-plus abandoned mines - Ignored Paths of Uranium Exposure Illuminated by Havasupai Tribe
An agency-tribal partnership is identifying exposure risks previously not considered in mining risk assessments. By Grace van Deelen | 20 February 2024 https://eos.org/articles/ignored-paths-of-uranium-exposure-illuminated-by-havasupai-tribe?fbclid=IwAR3dRIFPkR-hazEBtl-dtGjp2oZWxooQUy0u29ovf3q2Pqa3yWewsIfTNoo Carletta Tilousi has seen multiple friends and family members suffer from cancer. “Everyone’s lost loved ones,” she said. “But we’re not yet sure where it’s coming from. Is it in the… Read more: Ignored Paths of Uranium Exposure Illuminated by Havasupai Tribe - Maryknoll nun helps New Mexico’s tribal peoples deal with uranium legacy
BY: MARK PATTISON When she was assigned to New Mexico 26 years ago after spending 33 years ministering in Asia, Maryknoll Sr. Rose Marie Cecchini never expected to spend so much of her ministry — and for such a lengthy period — helping the state’s tribal peoples deal with the literal fallout of uranium mining.… Read more: Maryknoll nun helps New Mexico’s tribal peoples deal with uranium legacy - Lawmakers, community members say RECA expansion is needed to help the ‘unknowing, unwilling, uncompensated victims of the Cold War’
By Hannah Grover “You talk about the American dream, our people that engage in mining of uranium did not reach that American dream,” – Phil Harrison, a former miner and a member of the Navajo Uranium Radiation Victims Committee As the years have passed and people have died of cancer, Navajo Nation communities impacted by uranium… Read more: Lawmakers, community members say RECA expansion is needed to help the ‘unknowing, unwilling, uncompensated victims of the Cold War’ - 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: Inside the Navajo Church Rock Nuclear Disaster, the largest radioactive disaster in US history that’s somehow often forgotten
