[CPEO-BIF] Lake Minnequa, Pueblo, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contamination At New Park Site Raising Concerns	

Jason Aubry
KKTV News 11 (Southern Colorado)
July 16, 2009

The ground-breaking ceremony to turn Pueblo's Lake Minnequa into a park 
and recreation area is about a week away. But some residents are 
concerned about how contaminated land around the lake will be dealt with.

When city officials were thinking about purchasing the land, they 
expected to find contamination around the lake. The reality is, they 
found very little. In fact, they only found two areas of contamination 
that needed to be cleaned up. The biggest area is a site the steel mill 
may have used decades ago to get rid of a small amount of steel 
by-product called slag. Originally, the steel mill owned all 225 acres 
around the lake. The gray slag material is only found in a small 1.6 
acre patch on the east side of the lake. According to the Environmental 
Protection Agency, this patch of earth will need to be cleaned up if the 
city want's to turn it into a park.

"The EPA through their contractor tested the material, and there was 
three elements that exceeded the state standards," says Scott Hobson 
with the cities Planning and Development department.


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For the eentire story, see
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/50899067.html

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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
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