[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Cotter Corp. uranium mill, Cañon City, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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Lenny Siegel
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