EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nevada wells

Peggy Pauley who formed Yerington's first citizen advocacy group to address the water contamination from the former Anaconda copper mine site near Yerington, Nev., talks about attempts to make a recreation site out of the mine's pit In this photo taken Oct. 26, 2009. After decades of state and mine officials claiming that radiation and arsenic contamination in the local wells occurred naturally, scientists have mapped out a definitive uranium plume drifting from the mine site in the local groundwater.