Protect Jonesborough Podcast

January 6th: Regional Planning Commission Meeting // Zoning: What It Is and Why It Matters

Welcome to the first episode of Protect Jonesborough Podcast!
 
In this episode we talk through what zoning is, how it's established in Washington County, TN, and why it matters.
 
UPCOMING MEETING! WHAT: Washington County Regional Planning Commission MeetingWHEN: JANUARY 6TH - 5PM WHERE: Washington County Justice Center - 108 W Jackson Blvd, Jonesborough, TN
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BWXT wants to expand into doing High Purity Depleted-Uranium Processing in Jonesborough — directly inside of our community!
 
This isn’t rumor. This is from federal .gov sources and the company itself.
And here’s the part that every resident needs to understand:
 
This is not the same operation that Aerojet used to run.
 
Yes — depleted uranium work has happened on this land in the past. But the new plan is massively different in scale, purpose, and environmental risk.
 
This is uranium chemical conversion and metal manufacturing at industrial scale — in a floodplain, next to homes, farms, wells, and creeks that feed the Nolichucky watershed.
 
The Pattern Is Clear:
 
Every site that has ever processed High Purity Depleted Uranium has become a contaminated Superfund cleanup site. Federal and state regulators now cite these sites as warning examples of what should never be repeated!
 
Groundwater & soil contamination
Radiological and heavy metal exposure
Unusable wells/land
Decades-long, multimillion-dollar cleanup
Property value collapse
Permanent legacy of regret
 
If Washington County allows uranium processing next to residential and agricultural land, it will be repeating a pattern that has already failed — at immense public cost — everywhere it has ever been tried.
 
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