Corpus is surrounded by
uranium mines and processing facilities. The Alta Mesa project in Brooks County, the Hobson uranium processing plant in Karnes County, the Palangana, Vasquez, Holiday and El Mesquite mines in Duval County, the Kingsville Dome plant in Kleberg County and the Rosita mine. These plants and mines tap into the South Texas Uranium trend that makes South Texas the third largest uranium producer in the US. Not exactly an accolade that brings in newlyweds and young families. The
EPA issues warnings to residents in the surrounding areas that their water is unsafe. Residents have complained that the contamination is the result of mining and processing, but industry reps assert that the leaching is natural and unrelated to their extraction activities: "Mark Pelizza, U-R-I Vice President, "So it's not the exploration that causes any kind of contamination. It's mother nature who has put the uranium there and mother nature has cause it to occur naturally [KIII TV]." Families can't afford to leave their
homes because no one wants to buy property that is poisoned by uranium facilities. The uranium in South Texas is extracted through a process called
ISL (in situ leaching) by which a solution is washed through the uranium-containing material and collected. The process is allegedly safe, but one can only imagine that swishing nuclear mouthwash beneath the soil can't have a positive effect on our groundwater and soil.
Corpus is surrounded by uranium mines and processing facilities. The Alta Mesa project in Brooks County, the Hobson uranium processing plant in Karnes County, the Palangana, Vasquez, Holiday and El Mesquite mines in Duval County, the Kingsville Dome plant in Kleberg County and the Rosita mine. These plants and mines tap into the South Texas Uranium trend that makes South Texas the third largest uranium producer in the US. Not exactly an accolade that brings in newlyweds and young families. The EPA issues warnings to residents in the surrounding areas that their water is unsafe. Residents have complained that the contamination is the result of mining and processing, but industry reps assert that the leaching is natural and unrelated to their extraction activities: "Mark Pelizza, U-R-I Vice President, "So it's not the exploration that causes any kind of contamination. It's mother nature who has put the uranium there and mother nature has cause it to occur naturally [KIII TV]." Families can't afford to leave their 
homes because no one wants to buy property that is poisoned by uranium facilities. The uranium in South Texas is extracted through a process called ISL (in situ leaching) by which a solution is washed through the uranium-containing material and collected. The process is allegedly safe, but one can only imagine that swishing nuclear mouthwash beneath the soil can't have a positive effect on our groundwater and soil.
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