Black Falls/Box Springs/Grand Falls Safe Drinking Water Project

The Black Falls project was funded in part by a US EPA Environmental Justice (EJ) program grant.Educational outreach resulted in finding 100 families still drinking uranium and arsenic contaminated water in a region where local sources are contaminated by uranium, arsenic and other pathogens.A Declaration of Emergency/Public Health Emergency was declared by Leupp Chapter and the Western Navajo Agency Council consisting of all the Chapters in the western portion of the Navajo Nation.We are currently working with our partners, the Chief of Staff of the Navajo Nation, and the Department of Emergency Management to have the Navajo Nation declare a State of Emergency/Public Health Emergency in Black Falls/Box Springs/Grand Falls and identify funding for safe drinking water facilities to prepare for the first delivery of safe drinking water by a US EPA funded water hauling truck.