Andrews County Disposal Site, Texas

The Andrews County Disposal Site is a major commercial chemical and radioactive waste site, accepting waste from all over the nation. It has been a chemical waste disposal site since 1989, and is operated by the Waste Control Specialists Company, based in Dallas. It started accepting radioactive waste in 1998, with shipments from the cleanup of the DOE’s Fernald site in Ohio, and later expanded to accept all three types of low-level radioactive waste: class A, B, and C. It was selected to be the disposal site for the PCBs dredged from the Hudson River, as part of General Electric’s cleanup of the upper Hudson, after decades of dumping. The 14,000 acre facility is next to the New Mexico state line, and URENCO, the only uranium enrichment plant currently operating in the nation, which supplies fuel to most of the nuclear power plants in the USA.