THE ASARCO COVER-UP CONTINUES.....

Asarco begins cleanup in Anapra (4:30 p.m.)
Sun News Report
Las Cruces Sun-News
http://www.lcsun-news.com/latest/ci_6641360

ANAPRA, N.M. (AP) — A copper company has begun cleaning up lead and arsenic contamination in the soil around the community of Anapra on the New Mexico-Texas border at the request of the state Environmental Department.

The department said soil was contaminated by the Asarco copper smelter mill in nearby El Paso, Texas.

The $200,000 project, expected to be completed by the end of August, involves removing up to two feet of contaminated soils from yards, backfilling the yards with clean dirt, then landscaping.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing the cleanup, and the state agency has asked that contaminated soil be taken to an El Paso landfill [Clint Landfill] instead of at the Camino Real landfill in New Mexico.....

new Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility at Alamogordo

Domenici to Help Commission Tularosa Desalination Facility

from the Office of Senator Pete V. Domenici

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today announced that he will join Bureau of Reclamation officials in hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the new Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility at Alamogordo later this week......
http://domenici.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=280823