Fremont County Independent Outreach Committee

The owners of a closed uranium mine near Golden have been ordered by the state health department ot stop discharging polluted water into a creek that flows into a Denver area reservoir.

The state health department is taking action because Cotter corp. has been discharging pollution without a permit and uranium levels in the water are significantly exceeding the safety standard, Steve Gunderson, director of the state water quality control division, said Thursday.