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...

 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...

 Rachel Alexander

The Daily Record

Two public meetings Thursday discussed the draft Public Health Assessment of the Lincoln Park/Cotter Superfund Site by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Representatives from ATSDR’s Atlanta and Denver offices were in Cañon City to meet with members of the public about the assess...

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DENVER — A citizens group has filed a lawsuit accusing Colorado regulators of failing to require Cotter Corp. to set aside enough money to clean up its uranium mill in Canon City.

Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste filed the lawsuit in Denver District Court against the state health dep...

Attorney: Regulations only apply to active mill impoundments

Rachel Alexander

The Daily Record

Environment Colorado and Colorado Citizens Against ToxicWaste issued a press release and documents stating Cotter is in “open defiance of the law at two uranium sites,” including the Cañon City mill.

“Cotter acts as if it is ...

Company to tear down buildings before applying to amend its license

Rachel Alexander

The Daily Record

Work is proceeding at the Cotter Corp. Uranium Mill to decommission and clean up the historic mill site.

The company intends to remove the majority of the old mill’s facilities before applying to amend its license to allow...

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

CANON CITY — Members of Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste voiced disappointment in a recent health assessment relating to exposure to Cotter Uranium Mill contamination.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a division of the federal Centers for Disea...

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

CANON CITY — A federal public health agency has delved into health concerns for residents living near the Lincoln Park/Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site and has issued its findings.

The Cotter Uranium Mill processed ''yellowcake'' uranium from 1958 to 1987. In 1988, the Environmental Protection...

Cotter denies it — their typical spin method — but with contamination 1,000 times the norm, and the contaminated Schwartzwalder Mine nearby, what other conclusion could be drawn? They've used the same "denial" spin about golf course contamination in Canon City coming from natural uranium. The public doesn't know about other issues, such as: high thorium ...

Letters to the Editor, Carol Dunn, CCAT Co-Chair