MCKENZIE COUNTY, N.D. — Federal and state health officials (click here) are
investigating leaking trailers loaded with thousands of pounds of
potentially radioactive filter socks and debris parked on rural property
southwest of Watford City.
A special agent with the
Environmental Protection Agency criminal investigations unit is assigned
to the case and a radiation control team from the state Health
Department was on scene Friday.
Brad Torgerson, with the
state Health Department’s waste management division, said the team
determined that radiation levels “do not appear to present any public
health hazards.” He said the company, RP Services, of Riverton, Wyo.,
was told to put the waste in proper containers and submit a plan for
cleanup....
