Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future

Socorro Contamination

Season 2 Episode 8 | 4m 59s | Video has closed captioning.

Correspondent Laura Paskus travels to Socorro and a Superfund cleanup site where a plume of toxic groundwater from an old battery plant is seeping underneath homes. The Eagle Picher site has been a federally designated cleanup project since 2007. Paskus asks state officials about the holdup on one of the state's 16 designated Superfund sites.