[CPEO-BIF] Leadville (CO) land use restrictions

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Leadville cleanup hits snags

By Steve Lipsher
The Denver Post (CO)
October 9, 2006

Leadville won't be removed from the list of the nation's most polluted 
sites until local officials enact permanent land-use restrictions and 
other safeguards to prevent exposure to heavy metals, according to a new 
federal review.

Since the town was declared a Superfund site in 1983, federal, state and 
local officials - as well as the remaining companies that owned the 
mines - have struggled with determining who was responsible and what 
work really needed to be done.

More than a century of hard-rock mining left the town with a legacy of 
acid mine runoff that contaminated the Arkansas River and tailings piles 
that leached heavy metals; and left some of the town's children with 
unhealthy levels of lead in their blood.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_7122768

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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