Fremont County Independent Outreach Committee

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...

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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 ...

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CANON CITY — To test or not to test, that is the question not easily answered when it comes to the Cotter Corp. uranium mill.

Environment Colorado and Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste accuse Cotter of "blatantly defying agency orders and regulations" by refusing to conduc...

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...

Hamrick: Cotter plans to proceed with 2014 target

Company intends to apply for license amendment

Rachel Alexander

The Daily Record

Cotter has no plans to shut its doors, and the company is still planning to apply for a license amendment to allow it to resume operation in 2014.

This is according to the plant’s vice president of mi...

Cotter Corp. decommissioning mill, closing impoundments

Karen Lungu

The Daily Record

Officials said Cotter Corp. is moving toward decommissioning its mill and reclaiming the impoundments Thursday at the Lincoln Park/Cotter Superfund Community Advisory Group.

“When we say they are decommissioning, they are decommissioning m...

 Cotter Corp. will dismantle its toxic waste ponds and buildings at a uranium mill south of Cañon City, but it intends to keep its license from state regulators to operate at the site and may re-open, the vice president for operations said Thursday.

Accelerated efforts to close down contaminated facilities at the Superfund cleanup site are aimed at clear...

 Karen Lungu

The Daily Record

Cotter Corp. has announced they will shut down rather than refurbish the Cañon City milling facility, which has operated in the area since 1958. The Uranium Processing Accountability Act, signed by Gov. Bill Ritter on June 8, requires uranium mills to clean existing toxic wastes before continuing new projects.

CANON CITY — The Cotter Uranium Mill, located two miles south of Canon City, operated continuously from 1958 until 1979, making "yellow cake" for the nuclear power industry from processing uranium ore.

In the last 30 years its operations were intermittent.

In late 2005, Cotter ceased normal operations and stabilized the facility to go into a "stand...

 The operator of a uranium mill that contaminated groundwater and soil at Cañon City has indicated that it will be shut down rather than refurbished.

Cotter Corp. has informed regulators it will close two toxic-waste impoundment ponds at the mill "as soon as reasonably achievable," according to a letter Cotter sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag...