-The tailings solution had a [[pH]] of 1.2<ref name=Nelson>{{cite wikisource |last1=Nelson |first1=John D. |last2=Kane |first2=Joseph D. |title=The Failure of the Church Rock Tailings Dam |year=1980 |publisher=[[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]}}</ref> and a gross alpha particle activity of {{convert|128|nCi|kBq|lk=on}} per liter.<ref name="NMOSH"/> In addition to radioactive [[uranium]], [[thorium]], [[radium]] and [[polonium]], it also contained various other metals, including [[cadmium]], [[aluminium]], [[magnesium]], [[manganese]], [[molybdenum]], [[nickel]], [[selenium]], [[sodium]], [[vanadium]], [[zinc]], [[iron]], and [[lead]], and also high concentrations of [[sulfates]].<ref name="NMOSH">{{cite web|last=Rangel|first=Valerie|title=Church Rock Tailings Spill: July 16, 1979|publisher=New Mexico Office of the State Historian|year=2010|url=http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=24161|access-date=December 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425183611/http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=24161|archive-date=April 25, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The contaminated water from the Church Rock spill traveled {{convert|80|mi|km}} downstream, through Gallup, New Mexico, and reached as far as Navajo County, Arizona. The flood backed up sewers, affected nearby [[aquifers]], and left stagnating, contaminated pools on the riverside.<ref name=Bruggeetal/><ref name=Giusti>{{citation|last=Giusti|first=Brendan|title=Radiation Spill in Church Rock Still Haunts 30 Years Later|date=July 16, 2009|newspaper=The Daily Times|location=[[Farmington, New Mexico]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Szasz|first=Ferenc Morton|title='Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century|year=2006|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-3883-9|pages=82–83|ref=Szasz}}</ref>
+The tailings solution had a [[pH]] of 1.2<ref name=Nelson>{{cite wikisource |last1=Nelson |first1=John D. |last2=Kane |first2=Joseph D. |title=The Failure of the Church Rock Tailings Dam |year=1980 |publisher=[[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]}}</ref> and a gross alpha particle activity of {{convert|128|nCi|kBq|lk=on}} per liter.<ref name="NMOSH"/> In addition to radioactive [[uranium]], [[thorium]], [[radium]] and [[polonium]], it also contained various other metals, including [[cadmium]], [[aluminium]], [[magnesium]], [[manganese]], [[molybdenum]], [[nickel]], [[selenium]], [[sodium]], [[vanadium]], [[zinc]], [[iron]], and [[lead]], and also high concentrations of [[sulfates]].<ref name="NMOSH">{{cite web|last=Rangel|first=Valerie|title=Church Rock Tailings Spill: July 16, 1979|publisher=New Mexico Office of the State Historian|year=2010|url=http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=24161|access-date=December 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425183611/http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=24161|archive-date=April 25, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The contaminated water from the Church Rock spill traveled {{convert|80|mi|km}} downstream, through Gallup, New Mexico, and reached as far as Navajo County, Arizona. The flood backed up sewers, affected nearby [[aquifers]], and left stagnating, contaminated pools on the riverside.<ref name=Bruggeetal/><ref name=Giusti>{{citation|last=Giusti|first=Brendan|title=Radiation Spill in Church Rock Still Haunts 30 Years Later|date=July 16, 2009|newspaper=The Daily Times|location=[[Farmington, New Mexico]]}}</ref><ref name="szasz_2006_nm-20th-century">{{cite book|last=Szasz|first=Ferenc Morton|title='Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century|year=2006|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-3883-9|pages=82–83|ref=Szasz}}</ref>