2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 10 Oct 2007 17:58:39 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Leadville (CO) land use restrictions
 
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
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