Monticello VMTE Committee

VMTE

The Monticello Utah Victims of Mill Tailings Exposure Committee

or VMTE Committee  would like to welcome you to our domain. There is information on this site regarding the contamination of our area due to a uranium mill that produced and provided  material for nuclear weapons for the United States government during World War II and the cold war era. The mill was in operation from 1941-1960 then left abandoned, therefore contamination years were from 1941-2000.  An extensive clean up was done at the mill site and on 425 vicinity properties.

Our beautiful town is now the safe, clean little community we all enjoy.

Millions of dollars were spent by the U.S. government cleaning the mill site they had left contaminated and  abandoned and the adjoining town properties. However the health issues that we feel are a direct result of years of toxic contamination  have never been addressed or recognized by our government.Please take the time to look at the site and return often for updates. It is our goal  to seek adequate health care for those victims that have suffered from cancer because of the  Monticello Mill Site.

        THE MONTICELLO VMTE COMMITTEE

                  Supporting the Fighters,

                                            Admiring the Survivors,

                                                  Honoring the Taken,

                                                                               and

                                          Never, Ever Giving Up!



To add a post script to this page, and we wanted to do so in a place that would be more,much more visible to our visitors than our "in the news page." We JUST got this communication I am posting it with the hope any of you visiting this site will view this video that Mr. Goldfein has so graciously shared with us. Please follow the link

Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 2:24 PM

Hi,
My name is Mike Goldfein.  Back in the early 1980s I was a reporter at KUTV, Salt Lake City.  In 1983 I spent some months investigating and preparing a story about the radioactive tailings and the leukemia cases in Monticello.  I recently retired from journalism (I live in the Washington, DC area) and while going through old videos, I found the story.  I have posted it online here:

http://vimeo.com/25082090

Feel free to watch it and let others know it is there.  It may not be the earliest news report about the devastating health problems suffered by the good people of Monticello as a result of government indifference, but I'm certain it is the earliest broadcast news story.  In preparing the story, we gathered a lot of interviews and had some interesting encounters with the folks from the Department of Energy. 
Please feel free to drop me a line.  I'd like to hear how things have worked out.  I know the battle continues.
Best Regards,
Mike 

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Attention Monticello Residents!

If you lived in Monticello went to school or worked in Monticello during the contamination years of 1941-2000 The State of Utah through the efforts on the Monticello VMTE has received a limited amount of funding through the federal government to be used to assist the community of Monticello with a cancer screening program much like the federal RESEP program. Monticello Heath Education Screening Initiative MHESI. Senators Hatch and Bennett are sponsoring a bill in the hopes of putting more money through this program. This will help pay for much of your cancer screening.You can get a voucher from Marilee Bailey at the Southeastern Utah Health Dept. office down stairs in the old courthouse 435-587-2021 We have to use this funding or we will loose it please take advantage of this opportunity for you own peace of mind. You always think it isn't going to happen to you. But it could. The cancer cases keep coming in.

MHESI Update Sept. 1st. 2009

Through the efforts of Senators Hatch and Bennett

and the Utah Dept. of Health

A new funding cycle has been awarded visit or call Southeast Utah Dept. of Health 435-587-2021, down stairs in the old court house. If you haven't gotten a voucher now is the time to do so.If you have applied for a voucher but have not received one those are in the process of being awarded at this time. If you voucher has expired please contact us for a new voucher.

New funding guide lines have been established.

The new funding can help pay for follow up screenings, travel expenses, cancer victims  physician follow up appointments and some specialized care.

We are making a difference let us help you

MHESI UPDATE!Jan. 2010.

Again through the efforts of our Senators, we have once again obtained another round of funding, to be used for cancer screening, we can also help with those follow up tests &  travel costs, so many people have to travel so far for treatment and checkups. And we also have  limited funding that can help with some treatment. We CAN help you or your family member, if you have questions or would like an application for a voucher PLEASE contact us at  the SEUHD office 435-587-2021

           Total cancers from 1993 survey ..236.

        17 being leukemia   also 46 serious illness charted

             Total cancers from 2005 survey.. 364.

        19 being leukemia  also 80 serious illness charted.

                    Total cancers  616..

       36    being leukemia  Of these 36 leukemia’s

             17...1960-1980...19...1980-2005

           742 total cancers and serious illness

                    1993 and 2005 surveys