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FWIW, I found a transcript of the Feb. 20 WIPP Town Hall Meeting:

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.fr/2014/02/pro-nukers-are-proud-of-high-level.html

Watching the meeting was painful; reading the transcript of the QnA is almost frightening. Also for what it's worth, there's a comment by one of the site folks that put the ventilation system flow rate at 425,000 cubic feet/minute, which converts to just over 12,000 cubic meters/minute, so prior analysis is just a bit skewed since POTR blog is using the 20,000 cubic meter/minute figure (no idea where they got that data).

As well, there's a comment about the type of waste being stored at WIPP; it will be interesting to see if this is verified, as it could genuinely fit the pieces for the chain of events that led to the radiation release (which I theorize might have been hydrogen explosion, ceiling collapse, radiation release). It's been documented that the designated stored/buried waste at Los Alamos (the same waste they feared for during the wildfires there) was dug up sent to WIPP already.

Oh, and in case you missed it:

Los Alamos National Laboratory Develops “Quick to WIPP” Strategy, dated February 23, 2003:

An analysis of the 9,100 cubic meters of stored CH-TRU waste revealed that 400 cubic meters or 4.5% of the inventory represented 61% of the risk. The analysis further showed that this 400 cubic meters was contained in only 2,000 drums.
These facts and the question “How can the disposition of this waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) be accelerated?” formed the genesis of LANL’s Quick to WIPP initiative.

Note: They refer to these 2000 drums as high-wattage.

The solution is found in a change in the methodology used to the meet the NRC 5% limitation. Specifically it includes the following.
1) Once the drums are loaded into the inner confinement vessel (ICV) of the TRUPACTII and the ICV is sealed a vacuum is applied. Since each drum is vented the vacuum is in turn applied to the drums themselves. This purges the drums of most of the hydrogen that have accumulated during storage and air allowing an initial flammable gas concentration approaching zero.
2) The ICV and accordingly the drums themselves are then backfilled with nitrogen, an inert gas. This is an added safety measure for which formal credit is not taken.
3) The 5-day clock starts upon completion of the vacuum process. Twenty-four hours are allowed for the backfilling of the ICV, leak testing, and handling of the loaded TRUPACT-IIs. Two days are then allowed for transit from LANL to WIPP and finally twenty-four hours are allowed for venting of the ICV and accordingly the drums upon arrival at WIPP. An extra twenty-four hours are included as a margin of safety. This allows only five days for flammable gas accumulation versus the 60 days currently allowed.

Oh, I'm sure there will still be doubting-thomases out there about hydrogen-producing waste drums at WIPP. From the document above:

8) The first of the 2,000 Quick to WIPP drums were successfully shipped from LANL to WIPP in December 2002. Plans call for all 2,000 drums to have been shipped by the end of fiscal year 2004.

The real question is whether or not the vented waste drums were placed within WIPP inside or removed from their TRUPACT-II inner containment vessel (ICV) and how WIPP was designed to mitigate flammable/explosive gas. Some (or most) of those drums have been in the sealed panels for at least 10 years, many generating hydrogen...

I still can't believe those few following this are still 'fringe'...
WIPP Expert: Nuclear waste is getting out above ground — Plutonium / Americium found in “every single worker” on site when leak began — New Mexico officials ‘totally unsatisfied’ with lack of info from Feds

Interview with WIPP expert Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center, Nuclear Hotseat with Libbe HaLevy, Mar. 4, 2014:

"Hancock: They still have amounts of radiation that they’re reading in the underground at WIPP. The DoE is saying that the filter system is 99.97% effective. We don’t know that that’s true because we don’t have laboratory results back, how much radioactivity those filters are actually catching. We are a long way from having all the sampling we need in the above ground to know how much is out. We can presume that minute amounts can still be coming out through the filter system even if the filter system is working perfectly. The filter system doesn’t work 100% perfect — 99.97%, if it is working that well is good, but that means there’s 0.03% that is getting out. So it will be a continuing problem until all of the contamination, both underground and above ground is cleaned up. [...] It’s a continuing potential threat to people for a long time to come.

Hancock (at 3:00 in): Apparently every single worker on the site when the alarm was triggered late night on Valentine’s Day Feb. 14 received internal dose […] confirmed internal radiation. So that bodes the possibility of some serious health consequences.

Hancock (at 11:00 in): The government has not been accurate in what it has said [….] The information flow has been bad. I know of nobody that thinks the information flow has been good. I was just on the phone in the last half hour with the New Mexico secretary of the environment department, the state official who is most responsible for the State’s activities at the WIPP site, and he was saying he is still totally unsatisfied with the lack of information the DoE is giving him and his regulatory agency — not to mention the further lack of information that the public is getting.

Note: The NMED Secretary is Ryan Flynn, fwiw, only confirmed for the job Feb. 18 of this year. As well, the reason that lab tests aren't back from the filter samples is that workers were not permitted to collect the filters for 2 weeks (no contingency plan in the event of a radiation emergency to collect WIPP underground samples for radionuclide isotope identification).

Any why haven't they sent in a drone yet to see what damage they're dealing with? TEPCO got more heat over their slow response than this.

Can it possibly be because this project got Bama's ARRA 'Recovery Act' monies and was cited among the stats "jobs saved or created"? (I have saved those files. If anyone needs that citation, Freep mail me)

I'm also going to remind that this site (WIPP) was being groomed for storing high-level nuclear waste (spent fuel rod casks...I have all those links & files, too) just late this last year and that one of Bama's 'noted accomplishments' was cancelling Yucca Mountain, another Law that the administration chose to not be held to...though that's been challenged...

Oh, and not that it means anything, but NMED Secretary Ryan Flynn is a 2001 graduate of Harvard University, is a lawyer and has no background in environment, save for his work experience noted here:

Prior to becoming Cabinet Secretary, Flynn served as the Environment Department’s General Counsel and Legislative Coordinator. Before joining the Environment Department, Flynn worked for the Modrall Sperling law firm. At Modrall Sperling, he worked in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Renewable Energy practice groups

So, between DOE and Attorney Flynn, the residents of New Mexico are 'well-covered' (/s). Note also that some of the contaminated workers were 'union' and the Union isn't getting any answers either; how this plays out should be interesting, so say the least...

Due to my accused 'histrionics' & low level of interest, I'm not posting 'breaking news' updates or any new posts at all on the 'WIPP Radiation Event". This thread got the amount of traffic I thought it would. All updates will be as replies here.

Update 3/6:

WIPP Is Still The Best and Only Choice For Nuclear Waste

It's really quite the piece of propaganda. Anyone doubting how much money is at stake if WIPP is permanently shuttered should use their own time to research. For the record, the contributor to the Forbes article above is a staunch pro-nuclear Cap & Trade 'climate alarmist', 'radiation-is-safe-for-you' propaganda shill and last year called Vermont citizens 'stupid' for shuttering Yankee Nuclear Plant after >40 years of operation (BWR-4 Reactor/MK-I Containment, same design as Fukushima's Units 2, 3, 4 & 5).

Also, by the way, James Conca lists CEMRC (Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center) as his former post as Director...that's the same outfit charged with maintaining/sampling the radiation monitors around WIPP.

(nothing to see here...Conca's just coming out swinging in defense of WIPP just because...) /s

Another 3/6 Update:

Department of Energy: Follow-up testing shows no health risk for exposed WIPP employees

Department officials said Wednesday afternoon that despite many unknowns, the employees are unlikely to experience any adverse health effects.

Ok. Good news if it's true. But take a look at the test results from the so-called 'filters' in this report:

and weigh those numbers with the cherry-picked & muted measurements and anti-histrionic propaganda statements such as,

The amount of radiation released into the environment was a million times less than any EPA action levels, but to hear the outcry you’d think it was Chernobyl.

According to this, the author cites filters removed 2/16 as having

"According to CEMRC, the measured levels were more than 50 times less than the EPA action level of 37 Bq (0.001 microcurie).

"50 times less"? Really? Go back and look at the chart image. That equates to a level of 0.74 Bq. Which sample are they referring to? Note: Completely ignoring the first samples which bracket the "unfiltered release" period of the Exhaust Vent. Of course, this presumes I'm not totally confused as to the measured radiation vs. EPA 'action levels'. It could be referring to the Pu239 level of .63 Bq. But what of the level on the filter removed on the 15th? You know, if my prior statement was accurate, the level that's almost 1000 times the EPA Action Level?

The obfuscation ongoing on this 'WIPP Radiation-event' is incredible.

Update 2: At least one blogger concurs with my assertion that the radiation was released by more than just a 'ceiling collapse'.

There's also a serious assertion that the 'Exhaust Filtration' did not kick in either within 39 seconds nor automatically.

CERMC BACKS OFF ASSERTION THAT WIPP HEPA FILTERS SHIFTED OVER TO FILTRATION 'IN BRIEF MOMENTS',

As a footnote: I sincerely hope all the obfuscation is much-ado-about-nothing, that the employees genuinely tested 'negative' and the levels are what the public has been told. But the pattern is all-to-familiar and I have federal documents that outline 'paying off residents' to get sites like this installed, that States 'have no rights to dictate safety (such as closing sites/plants when safety is suspect) and 'pacifying the population' in the event of an 'incident'. My boy's in the 'shadow'; I, for one, give a damn.

-cynicus-

I'm not sure I posted this prior, but here are the Ventilation System Sampling Results from 2/14-3/9/2014.

The readings between A & B stations are telling, as they indicated a much LONGER interval of 'unfiltered exhaust air' than the alleged 30 seconds, on which they make their basis arguments for 'no effect on health' (specifically, note the fact that the highest reading at Station B is the SECOND sample that morning, hours after HEPA was supposed to kick in).

One thought: Following the Radiological Incident and the quite rapid realization that no worker personnel were underground, why the hell didn't they shut off the ventilation system???

This might be why (check out Figure 3-2). Just wondering out loud if it isn't such a good idea to pack all that 'trans-uranic lab waste' in those Panels as tightly as pictured, waste described as:

Basically just trash from weapons complex work including discarded PPE or cleanup activities

I can't find a single reference to a technical reason why the ventilation system wasn't shut off 'in the unlikely event of an underground radioactive release'.

In case anyone is curious, here are the technical specs of the WIPP Ventilation System & its operation.

In the unlikely event of an underground radioactive release, the ventilation system is either automatically or manually shifted to a filtration mode. The airflow demand during filtration mode decreases to 28m³/s (60,000 cfm). The shift consists of the main fans being turned off and one of the three 175 kW (235 hp) centrifugal standby filtration fans started. A series of isolation dampers diverts the air through the filtration system where the air is routed through a series of high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters.

Update:

Team to re-enter New Mexico nuclear waste site after radiation leak

The team will wear protective clothing and use self-contained breathing devices in a mission designed to determine the cause of the February 14 accident.

Just noting the fact they still haven't turned off the ventilation system.

Oh, and can't ignore:

Testing of surface air in and around the Energy Department complex has shown elevated levels of radiation since the mishap, but those have steadily decreased. None reached concentrations considered harmful to human health or the environment, Bugger said.

Because inhaling and getting lodged in your lung tissue 'hot plutonium particles' and who-knows-what is good for you... They're supposed to reenter around April 1st.

April Fools! It's safe! /s

Mine inspections not done

Meanwhile, New Mexico's senators want answers about why legally required inspections for WIPP weren't performed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
NM senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich sent a letter to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez Thursday asking for a written report on why MSHA hadn't performed the legally required inspections at WIPP.
The information about missed safety inspections was revealed in the Department of Energy's accident report on the Feb. 5 fire at WIPP. By law, MSHA is required to inspect WIPP four times a year. The accident report said the inspections had been performed twice in the last three years.

DOE & EPA setting up air monitoring stations & sampling soil & vegetation:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/crews-preparing-to-enter-underground-nuke-dump/2014/03/27/9f1290c4-b60d-11e3-bab2-b9602293021d_story.html

DOE:

the DOE said it will expand its environmental monitoring to 10 more stations that will test air, soil and vegetation around Hobbs, Artesia, Loving, Eunice and other nearby communities. To date, samples taken around Carlsbad have shown only radiation levels well below those deemed unsafe.

and EPA deploying mobile air monitors

http://www.currentargus.com/news/ci_25430586/epa-to-deploy-mobile-air-monitors

But I thought the levels were dropping and what was released was 'below levels' concerning human health????

The Environmental Protection Agency will deploy mobile environmental monitoring units to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, according to a news release by New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich.
The Senators asked for the additional air monitors in a Feb. 27 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The monitors will conduct independent tests and help respond to questions about environmental safety, the news release said.
"It's critical to ensure the public has access to accurate, timely information about health and safety while the recovery efforts at WIPP continues," the news release said. "As a public health agency, the EPA can provide independent monitoring and analysis about the safety of the air at WIPP and in the Carlsbad community."
The Senators said they believe the monitors will prove the radiation releases from WIPP are not a danger to public health.

The Senators are playing both sides of the fence well, aren't they?

Update from the 5/8 ‘Town Hall’ held by WIPP contractor in Carlsbad:

They’ve identified a LANL waste stream that seems to contain ‘nitrate salts’ and organics that may have vented and caused the event. However, they have NOT formed a strategy nor a cause of action for identifying and removing the specific drum to find out what happened. There appears to be many questions about a number of ‘high-activity drums’ that, on LANL’s website, state they were ‘unvented’ despite all the official statements about every container being shipped to WIPP required to be vented. The answer re the story on LANL’s website below

http://www.lanl.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2008/November/11.25-wipp-shipment.php

was, “I’ll have to go look at that” and other generalities.

Bottom line: They know nothing. They’re also asserting they can ‘decontaminate’ the mine to restore operations. They’re also talking seriously that, if it’s ‘just one drum’ about leaving it in place, sealing Panel 7 and restoring shipment operations for storage/disposal.

They’re still looking at it, investigating...but they’re also formulating a ‘move forward strategy’ without adequate information to address community concerns.

Just fyi. I’ll post a link if someone writes a better story than my generalized summary.

The Town Hall link is here, fwiw

http://new.livestream.com/rrv/wipptownhall9

There is no index I’ve yet seen for the town hall vids. However, you can view prior town hall vids by changing the end number (9, in this case) to bring up a prior town hall. #8, for example, was the 5/1 town hall...

Only 2 of 57 improperly-packed waste drums from LANL are underground in WIPP; the rest are believed to be above ground in temporary storage at an unnamed site in Texas and above ground at WIPP. NM has given WIPP 2 days to submit a plan to locate & secure the remaining 55 drums.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NUKE_REPOSITORY_RADIATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-19-22-00-32

Note: The article does not state the NM order is to ‘locate’; that is my language. The article specifically states:

“...many of which are likely stored outdoors on the lab’s northern New Mexico campus or at temporary site in west Texas...”

and

“According to the order, two of those containers are known to be at WIPP. It doesn’t say where the rest of the barrels are, but Los Alamos was in the process of transferring the last of thousands of barrels of waste from decades of nuclear bomb making to the underground dump when the leak shuttered the half-mile-deep mine.

Some containers were then transferred to temporary storage at a commercial nuclear waste dump in Andrews, Texas. But all shipments were stopped when investigators earlier this month zeroed in on the Los Alamos container as the likely source of the leak.”

Details on the 'neutralizers'

http://cenblog.org/the-safety-zone/2014/06/reactive-material-release-in-nuclear-waste-facility-possibly-caused-by-reactions-in-drums/

The nuclear waste material itself was nitrate salts. The organic material was added in processing and packaging the waste and comes from two sources. One was the use of cat litter added as a sorbent. Formerly a clay material, at some point Los Alamos National Laboratory changed to a cellulose material.
The other was neutralizers added to adjust the pH of the material. According to a document by contractor EnergySolutions, this is what went into the drums:
Acid neutralizer
Prior to September, 2013: Chemtex Acid Neutralizer, dry formula; contains “polymer,” sodium carbonate, alizarin (pH indicator)
After September, 2013: Spilfyter Kolorsafe Acid Neutralizer, liquid formula; contains triethanolamine, alizarin, water
Base neutralizer
Before April, 2013: Spilfyter Kolorsafe Benchtop Kits; contains citric acid, thymol blue (pH indicator); MSDS notes that the material is incompatible with metallic nitrates and strong oxidizers
After April, 2013: Pig Base Encapsulating Neutralizer, dry formula; contains citric acid, “super absorbent,” thymol; MSDS notes that the material is incompatible with metallic nitrates and strong oxidizers

The latest

Cause of New Mexico nuclear waste accident remains a mystery

A 55-gallon drum of nuclear waste, buried in a salt shaft 2,150 feet under the New Mexico desert, violently erupted late on Feb. 14 and spewed mounds of radioactive white foam.
The flowing mass, looking like whipped cream but laced with plutonium, went airborne, traveled up a ventilation duct to the surface and delivered low-level radiation doses to 21 workers.
The accident contaminated the nation's only dump for nuclear weapons waste — previously a focus of pride for the Energy Department — and gave the nation's elite ranks of nuclear chemists a mystery they still cannot unravel.
Six months after the accident, the exact chemical reaction that caused the drum to burst is still not understood. Indeed, the Energy Department has been unable to precisely identify the chemical composition of the waste in the drum, a serious error in a handling process that requires careful documentation and approval of every substance packaged for a nuclear dump.
(snip)

Sept. 2, 2014: Review, relabeling of LANL waste raises questions about scope of problem

As investigators keep trying to pinpoint what caused a drum of radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory to pop open and leak in an underground repository near Carlsbad, the lab’s review of the incident has led to uncertainty over the volatility of hundreds of other drums, including dozens still at Los Alamos.
(snip)
In July, LANL chemist Nan Sauer told a state legislative committee that the two drums — the one that leaked in WIPP and another one stored at the lab — had a unique set of chemicals.
Still, officials from the lab, the National Nuclear Safety Administration and the Department of Energy decided to review all the nitrate salt-bearing drums. They said their state permits for handling and storing the waste drums require them to recharacterize it when an analysis points to a change in the waste stream.
On July 30, they sent a letter to the New Mexico Environment Department saying they were relabeling the drums as potentially ignitable or corrosive pending further tests and reviews of original waste documents.
New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn wrote a reply giving the lab until Friday to provide proof the drums may be temporarily relabeled. “NMED is not aware that this approach is supported by regulations or EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] documents,” Flynn wrote. Flynn also wants the lab to explain why 57 remediated drums of nitrate salt-bearing containers and 29 unremediated ones qualify as ignitable or corrosive under EPA rules. The department also has asked for a list of the unremediated waste drums, how much free liquid is in each one and how the containers will be treated. Remediated drums hold waste that was repackaged with kitty litter and sometimes neutralizer so it will meet requirements for storage at WIPP.
In May, Flynn ordered the lab and the Department of Energy to isolate nitrate salt-bearing containers and to craft a plan for sealing off 368 such containers from the lab currently stored in the WIPP salt caverns.

Friday, September 6, has come & gone...no update on 'proof' from DOE...

Update:

Reuters: Investigation suggests another drum with plutonium ruptured at US nuclear site — TV: “There are new concerns at WIPP that there could be another radiation leak” (VIDEO)

Concern over another WIPP drum

They still don't know what caused it, don't have a plan and James Conca is still running around saying it will 'be reopened'...

...worse, Conca is cherry-coating what is still believed to be the genesis of the problem: Violation of procedures at LANL by either DOE or the contractor, where he writes,

For reasons perhaps related to good intentions, or merely related to dust generation, the inorganic kitty litter was replaced by organic wheat-based litter early on in the process. There were a few other components of not much import in the drums, but additional organic components just added more fuel.
Some decisions regarding these additives are vague and not attributable to a real chemist. Citric acid should never be used with metal-nitrate salts, because of the rapid evolution of heat. Similarly for acrylates. The use of organic additives for whatever purpose adds fuel to this mixture. And organic litters have the wrong properties for their intended function but being organic, they too add to the amount of fuel that could burn. I do think the correct litter alone would have prevented these reactions.
When real chemists did look at this mixture, they were appalled.

The problem in our nuclear power industry and its government regulators is systemic. A former nuclear supporter myself, I'm convinced more than ever that the time passed in 2011 where we should have begun moving away from meltdown-prone nuclear power to something better (thorium, for example).

We can only hope it's not too late to start, but the 'start' may now not come for another 2-4 years; I venture to guess we'll know more about the damage from Fukushima by then and that it will be shaping policy decisions moving forward...

Latest

WIPP Cleanup Could Top $550M

The Energy Department Tuesday released a plan to reopen the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico following a February accident and release of radiation. The department expects to spend between $310 million and $550 million, with the intention of resuming additional storage of transuranic waste from the nation’s legacy nuclear defense sites by 2016.
A new ventilation shaft and system for the half-mile deep facility will account for up to half the costs as the department transitions into working around contaminated areas.
Investigators pin the radiation release on a drum that did not meet the facility’s acceptability criteria.
“This drum was processed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is known to have nitrate salts, low pH, and organic material, which are likely to have been contributing factors to the release,” the department wrote.
In the continuing resolution signed this month, Congress gave the department flexibility to spend funds to maintain recovery operations at the site. The department expects fiscal 2015 costs to be $136 million, not including the ventilation system and shaft.
“This is a reasonable framework for moving forward,” said New Mexico’s Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall in a joint statement. “As this plan develops, collaboration between the Department of Energy, regulators, WIPP, and the community will continue to be important.”
Don Hancock, director of the nuclear waste safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, was skeptical the department would stay within the timeframe and costs it set forth the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

and the Udall/Heinrich joint statement

Udall, Heinrich Statement On Department Of Energy Recovery Plan For WIPP

Tuesday, September 30, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich issued the following statement today on the release of the Department of Energy’s Recovery Plan for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico:
“This is a reasonable framework for moving forward. It incorporates recommendations from the Accident Investigation Boards to improve operations and lays the groundwork to reinstate a culture in which safety is the top priority.
“As this plan develops, collaboration between the Department of Energy, regulators, WIPP, and the community will continue to be important, and we’ll keep working to ensure these lines of communication remain open and that key maintenance and management programs are in place. As our nation’s only deep geological repository for transuranic waste, we expect WIPP to operate with the highest level of safety and the highest level of transparency. The safety, health, and protection of our workers and community is of the utmost importance.
“We still expect a final report on the cause of the release to be completed and will keep fighting to ensure funding and resources are made available to implement the recovery plan so WIPP can safely resume operations.”
A copy of the plan is available here.

and let's not forget that LANL is to blame

But wait: Not the 'latest':

Wipp Update

October 28, 2014
WIPP continues to restore activities underground
WIPP employees recently completed the 100th entry into the WIPP underground facility since the February events that temporarily shut down access. Radiological control technicians continue to conduct “rollback” surveys and sampling necessary to re-establish additional areas of the mine as radiological buffer areas. Preventive maintenance activities are underway on various pieces of heavy equipment so they can be safely returned to service. Ongoing geophysical inspections are also being conducted to identify potential ground control issues and ensure a safe and secure working environment. Finally, maintenance crews are cleaning and inspecting electrical panels in the radiological buffer areas to ensure no soot from the fire is present.
The underground maintenance shop and lunchroom have also now been surveyed and released for use by employees working in the underground facility. Reopening these areas is an important milestone toward resuming normal activities. The number of employees allowed in the underground facility at one time remains limited until the waste hoist is returned to operation, which is expected in the coming weeks.
Beginning the week of November 3, 2014, the WIPP UPDATE will be moving to a once a week schedule, with Thursday as the targeted day for release. Additional updates will be provided as necessary for timely reporting on special issues or events.
Community meeting scheduled
November 6 – The City of Carlsbad and DOE will co-host its Town Hall meeting featuring updates on WIPP recovery activities. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Location: Carlsbad City Council Chambers, 101 N. Halagueno Street. Live streaming of the meeting can be seen at http://new.livestream.com/rrv/.

Go here for Past Wipp Updates at that site...