2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 07:49:28 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] TCE at Cotter Corp. uranium mill, Cañon City, Colorado
 
Cotter asks to stop testing impoundment pond due to dangerous conditions

By Bruce Finley
Denver Post (CO)
August 4, 2011

Cotter Corp. managers of a uranium mill have asked state regulators to let them stop testing the acidity of a leaking toxic- and radioactive- waste impoundment pond - saying conditions have become too dangerous for workers.

A makeshift row of wooden pallets leading into the viscous impoundment has sunk into muck, and "it is now unsafe to measure the pH of the pool," Cotter's environment coordinator, Jim Cain, said in a July 25 letter to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Cotter, a subsidiary of San Diego- based defense contractor General Atomics, also notified department regulators that the company will pursue a lower-cost, passive approach to investigating a recently discovered plume of the industrial solvent trichloroethene. According to Cotter documents, TCE was detected in groundwater at levels exceeding federal health limits and has spread to at least one off- site well.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18612982

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