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Supplemental Environmental Projects Update
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Supplemental Environmental Project Meetings
The New Mexico Environment Department, the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors signed two settlement agreements resolving the February 2014 incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad and the associated activities at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The agreements provide for a set of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in both the Carlsbad and Los Alamos communities that enhance and improve New Mexico’s roads, water infrastructure and emergency response infrastructure. Philo Shelton, Public Works Director; Eric Martinez, County Engineer; and Bryan Aragon, Senior Engineer have been attending meetings to help develop work plans for the following projects that will be funded as part of the settlement in Los Alamos:
$12 million to improve DOE-owned transportation routes used to ship transuranic waste to WIPP.
• Intersection of SR 4 and East Jemez Road
• East Jemez Road (east for approximately 4 miles)
• Security check point and Jemez Road
• NM 502 from MP 5.6 to MP 8.6
• NM 502/NM4 Interchange
• East Jemez Road ( guardrail repair/replacement)
$7.5 million to design and install engineering structures in canyons in and around LANL to slow storm water flow and decrease sediment load to improve water quality allowing surface water management at the watershed scale.
$2.5 million to fund increased sampling and monitoring capabilities for storm water runoff in and around LANL, with the results of the sampling and monitoring to be shared with the public and NMED.