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Rowdy Runoff + Uranium activity on Bears Ears border

A snowmelt torrent takes a bite out of Highway 133, stranding Somerset residents

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Jonathan P. Thompson
May 05, 2023
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I hadn’t intended this dispatch to be about the runoff. In fact, I intended to write about weird infrastructure built to try to engineer our way out of drought (and to meet water compact agreements). But a bunch of snowmelt stuff (plus some uranium drilling) started happening, so there you go.

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