Sulphuric acid tanks and the lime tank and mix area are still standing amid the dismantling work being done at contaminated site of Cotter Corp. Cañon City milling facility. You know what it’s like when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes around, and you miss it. You kick yourself, you hold onto regret for too long. Well, that’s where we are in the cleanup process for the Cotter uranium mill site and surrounding neighborhoods. A Work Plan will soon be approved that will outline new environmental testing in the Cañon City area, to determine the nature and extent of radioactive and heavy metal contamination from past uranium mill activities. Now is the time to let regulators know what you want to be tested! Emily Tracy A little background. The Cotter uranium mill south of Cañon City was built in the late 1950s and operated off and on until about 2011. In the 1960s and 1970s the mill was found to be the source of contamination of groundwater and soils in the mill area plus in Lincoln Park. The site was declared a federal Superfund site in 1984. Ongoing violations of the mill’s radioactive materials license continued off and on until the […]
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