[CPEO-BIF] Walsh Smelter site, Silverton, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Town seeks assurances on smelter site cleanup

By Mark Esper
Silverton Standard (CO)
May 28, 2009

State and federal officials met with Silverton trustees last week and 
assured them the cleanup at the former Walsh Smelter site will not leave 
them holding the bag of future liability for the brownfield project 
slated to become a subdivision.

In a meeting at Town Hall on Wednesday, May 20, some town officials 
expressed concern over the town taking responsibility for the repository 
of slag, ash and contaminated soils on the site.

"What we're most interested in is the pollution and our long-term 
liability," Mayor Terry Kerwin told officials with the Environmental 
Protection Agency and Colorado Department of Health.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.telluridenews.com/articles/2009/05/28/silverton_standard/news/doc4a1ed6171d863755319780.txt

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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>
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