Warning signs on security fence surrounding the Page- Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste dump

The purpose of www.PoisonedWells.com is to provide interested citizens with news and information regarding the Page-Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill and it's immediate surroundings.

The PageTrowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill is located a few miles to the east of Oracle Junction in Pinal County Arizona and contains radioactive and toxic waste generated by the laboratories of the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the Tucson Veterans Hospital.

The PageTrowbridge dump lies over an aquifer that is the sole water supply for residents of this desert region.

The dump is owned by the University of Arizona, and the UA is responsible for monitoring the groundwater beneath the dump to determine if the dump has begun leaking to the aquifer.

The Arizona Department Of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) oversees the University of Arizona's monitoring of the Page-Trowbrige radioactive/toxic waste landfill.

The State of Arizona is financially liable for any problems that arise from groundwater poisoned by the Page-Trowbrige radioactive/toxic waste landfill.

Contaminants have been intermittently detected in water taken from the monitoring wells at Page-Trowbrige for several years, but ADEQ and the U of A claim the radioactive/toxic waste landfill poses no threat to public health.
 

Did you know that the several millions of pounds of radioactive and toxic waste, generated at the laboratories of the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and the Tucson Veterans Hospital, was buried at the Page-Trowbridge disposal site? Did you know that the Page-Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill sits over the water supply for the above communities? Did you know that tests on water sampled in April & November of 2000 indicate that the Page-Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill is leaking to groundwater? Did you know that in 1993 the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) strongly recommended that a portion of this radioactive and toxic waste be removed from the landfill before the landfill was capped, because "ADEQ believes that the buried waste containers at the site will all ultimately collapse over time, regardless of the installation of a cap over the landfill"? Did you know that this radioactive and toxic waste was not removed prior to capping because it would cost too much money?

The figure below shows some of the proposed residential housing projects that would rely on water that lies beneath the Page-Trowbrige radioactive/toxic waste dump.