Superfund Site
August 22, 2010--Heavy metal pollution worsening in Snake River (Summit Citizens)
Signs that water quality in the Snake River may be getting worse have once again spurred talks about an EPA Superfund cleanup at the abandoned Pennsylvania Mine, along Peru Creek.
August 5, 2009--Puzzling trout decline on Eagle River (Denver Post)
Heavy runoff. Overharvest. Urbanization. Pollution. All or none of the above.
July 2, 2009--EPA plans hearings on DDT deposit off SoCal coast (U.S. Water News)
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to hold the first of several public hearings on a proposal to deal with a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern Califor
May 3, 2009--Cotter lays plans for tainted plant (Denver Post)
While their plant officially remains an environmental disaster, owners of a Cañon City uranium mill are pursuing a plan to reopen for nuclear business by hauling 12.5 million tons of ore by train from a pr
April 16, 2009--Stimulus cash will pour into mine cleanup (Denver Post)
The Summitville Mine Superfund site will receive up to $25 million in federal stimulus funds to replace an aging plant used to treat polluted mine water.
March 27, 2009--EPA hands $100 million in Recovery Act funds to Colorado (Environmental News Service)
Nearly $100 million will be invested in Colorado under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed by President Barack Obama in Denver on February 17.
March 4, 2009--Chromium in groundwater worries central Kansas city (Environmental News Service)
Residents of the small city of Great Bend, Kansas are worried about the contamination of their groundwater with chromium from a metal electroplating business that formerly operated near the local airport.
December 10, 2008--Summit County: EPA promises 'free' cleanup of Penn Mine (Summit Daily News)
Even though the EPA is promising a ‘free’ cleanup of the abandoned Pennsylvania Mine, local officials remain leery of a Superfund listing, citing concerns about potential human and social costs.
November 8, 2008--Scientists focus on tainted mine runoff in Summit County (Aspen Times)
Several weeks of intensive late-summer research at the abandoned Pennsylvania Mine in Summit County could help set the stage for state and federal cleanup funds.
October 19, 2008--Toxic plume spurs study of public health (Denver Post)
The federal government has begun a required but long-delayed comprehensive review of public health in Cañon City as newly found toxic pollution spreads from a shuttered uranium mill. The U.S.
