![Sara Keeler, county finance director, reported to the commission Jan. 23 that the county received an “unmodified opinion” by the State Auditor for the fiscal 2017 audit. Photo Credit: Rick Abasta](/images/resized/images/news/2016/147_jan26/30_100_100.jpg)
The McKinley County Board of Commissioners convened Jan. 23 for their regular meeting.
Included on the agenda was a proposal to add the San Mateo Creek Basin uranium legacy site to the Superfund National Priorities List.
Brenda Cook, NPL coordinator for the U.S. EPA joined by phone, along with colleagues LaDonna Turner, site assessment manager, and Adam Wiesce, community involvement coordinator.
“I apologize for us not being able to come, but because of the [federal] shutdown, they cancelled all travel,” Cook said.
The San Mateo Creek Basin is approximately 321 square miles within the Rio San Jose drainage basin in McKinley and Cibola counties. Numerous legacy uranium mines...