Homestake Uranium Mill and Disposal Site: Milan Residents

In this video, residents and advocates living near the Homestake Mining uranium mill and tailings pile share how contamination from the site has impacted their lives.

“They said it would only ever contaminate the alluvial aquifer. Ten years came and went, and it went beyond the alluvial aquifer, into the next aquifer, and then the next aquifer, and then the next aquifer…so that’s the end of any potential water for this area.”

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