Uranium Tailings Once Found at Proposed Salt Lake Homeless Shelter

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Opponents of a proposed Sugar House homeless shelter now have the option to go nuclear.

Salt Lake City has learned during the due diligence period for a $7 million land purchase that the site was once home to radioactive tailings from a long-shuttered uranium mill.

Documents indicate that the property near 653 E. Simpson Ave. was part of a nationwide federal cleanup ordered by Congress in the late 1970s, but landowner records don’t reveal the precise location of the tailings or the steps taken to remove them.

The city has requested additional records from the Department of Energy and will conduct at least two rounds of environmental review, said Mike Reberg, director of Salt Lake City’s Department of Community and Neighborhoods.

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