Fremont County Independent Outreach Committee

If Only They Had Listened

To the editor:

For years, Cotter and the Colorado Department of Health and Environment said there was no contamination getting to the Lincoln Park community. For fewer years, CDPHE said it was there, but it was significant. Now, it is there and seems to have stagnated.

It is there and has been, radiating the ne...

Rachel Alexander

The Daily Record

Citizens received an update on progress at the Cotter Corp. site at the monthly Community Advisory Group meeting Thursday.

Steve Tarlton, of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said several decommissioning projects have been completed, though two projects expected to be complete by Jan. 1 R...

By TRACY HARMON | tharmon@chieftain.com | 0 comments

CANON CITY — In hopes the state will deal with, "the huge elephant in the room," attorneys for Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste have filed an amended lawsuit against the state health department.

The Cotter Uranium Mill processed yellowcake uranium from 1958 to 1987. In 1988, the mill was id...

BARRY NOREEN

THE GAZETTE

Two weeks ago the Cotter Corp.’s dreams of reopening a uranium enrichment mill in Cañon City seemingly were dealt another blow, when the Colorado Department of Health and Environment granted a license (see my blog) for a mill that would be built near Naturita in southwestern Colorado.

Plenty of hurdles remain for the p...

The Mined Land Reclamation Board on Thursday found that Cotter Corp. violated state mining law by failing to comply with the Aug. 11 board order to draw water from the defunct Schwartzwalder uranium mine west of Denver and treat it, and to submit an appropriate financial warranty to cover this action, said Loretta Pineda, director of the Division of Reclama...

 CANON CITY — After three months of informal negotiations on how to monitor contaminated groundwater in Lincoln Park, the state and Cotter Corp. are unable to agree on what that task would cost.

The Colorado Department of Public Health on Oct. 26 issued an order requiring Cotter Corp. to adjust its $2.6 million surety to $9.9 million to...

 By Bruce Finley

The Denver Post

Posted: 11/04/2010 01:00:00 AM MDTUpdated: 11/04/2010 12:45:24 PM MDT

State mining regulators have found heaps of toxic uranium ore at a dormant Cotter Corp. mine in western Colorado and are moving to prevent contamination of land and water near the Dolores River.

The regulators ordered Cotter...

By TRACY HARMON | tharmon@chieftain.com | 0 comments

CANON CITY — Cotter Corp. and the state health department are nearly $20 million apart in agreeing on the amount of a financial assurance warranty to cover eventual closure of the uranium mill site just south of Canon City.

The uranium mill processed ''yellowcake'' uranium from 1958 to 1987. In ...

Owner of uranium-tainted mine defies Colorado's cleanup orders, finesCotter Corp. has sued a state board, claiming regulators exceeded their authority in ordering a cleanup of a contaminated Cotter uranium mine in Jefferson County.

The lawsuit, recently filed in Denver District Court, accuses Colorado's Mined Lands Reclamation Board of abusing its discretion when ...