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Mobile home park drinking uranium-laced water, utilities commission to step in (access required)

by IBR Staff
Published: June 24,2008
Time posted: 1:00 am

For months, residents of the Floating Feather Mobile Home Park on Horseshoe Bend Road near Eagle have been unable to receive water from their municipal provider, Eagle Water Co. As a result, they’ve been drinking from a uranium-contaminated well. Now state regulators have called for a Show Cause Hearing July 2 to find out why ...



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