Thursday, May 31, 2007

Officials in Murfreesboro Tennessee are testing the city's water for radioactive material.

May 30, 2007 - (AP) - Officials in Murfreesboro are testing the city's water for radioactive material. This follows reports of large amounts of low-level radioactive waste being dumped in a landfill upstream from the water supply.

The tests are in response to a recent WSMV TV investigative report that found more than ten million pounds of low-level radioactive waste from all over the country was dumped at BFI Middle Point Landfill in 2005. This was up from 166,000 pounds a year earlier.

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