Extent of Los Alamos chromium contamination still uncertain

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – A top official with the U.S. Energy Department says the agency is still uncertain about the extent of contamination from a massive plume of chromium that resulted from decades of poor waste management at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Doug Hintze with the Energy Department’s environmental management field office in Los Alamos told state lawmakers during a recent hearing that cancer-causing chromium and other chemicals have continued to seep from the soil in